From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Elston Subject: Re: Automatic Update of Org files Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:13:37 -0800 Message-ID: <498B72A1.8060701@advantest-ard.com> References: <498B623A.4080000@advantest-ard.com> <20524da70902051440qd49dd48p7a5da8ff2a22670f@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: m.elston@advantest-ard.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVDPo-0004gS-9e for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:13:48 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVDPk-0004g5-Hp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:13:47 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43936 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVDPk-0004g2-Fb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:13:44 -0500 Received: from [192.84.20.196] (port=2692 helo=mailhub.ardeng.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVDPj-00015B-RI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:13:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20524da70902051440qd49dd48p7a5da8ff2a22670f@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Samuel Wales Cc: Org Mode List Samuel, Thanks for the info. I will have to digest this and see if it fits. One concern I have with this approach (and I may not have fully grasped what you intended) is that the original source files have the current information like deadlines, etc that I want used when creating my agenda for the week. If I want more information about the agenda item I will navigate to it and hit which takes me to the generated Org file. Once there, I would like to be able to add notes as necessary. Alternatively, I suppose I could navigate to the notes if there is a simple mechanism for this. I don't really understand all you described below but I will try playing with it and see what comes out. Mark * Samuel Wales wrote (on 2/5/2009 2:40 PM): > IIUC, source is not under your complete control. You need it orgified > but also annotated. There are various annotation mechanisms. My > comments on the remember redesign might be relevant. > > You could consider going backward. Have your org file contain links > to the read-only stuff. Put entry IDs in the read-only stuff. > > Dunno if this helps. > > Here is something I had lying around: > > Another feature is to have org-registry show on the mode > line when a link points to the current buffer's object (w3m > page, file, dired, etc.). You click on it to go to the org > file link. See my remember suggestions in a previous thred > for more re annotations, bookmarks, and registry. > > I proposed this before: > > === snip > > Extension #2 to the bookmark idea. > > My idea is to always have annotations available for > emacs-w3m, dired, files, like org-annotate-file, just with > more modes. > > You can see in the mode line that whatever buffer you are in > has an annotation, and you can make an annotation. You can > also go to the annotation. > > The annotations are stored in an org file anywhere in the > hierarchy. Thus, if you want, annotations on a doctor's web > site can be stored in the entry for that doctor that is in > your org file. If you visit that web site from any source, > even Google, the mode line says that it is annotated. Then > you can pull up that entry with a command. > > Likewise with files or dired or whatever. For example, you > can comment org.el or /etc/passwd without having to modify > them. > > Remember code seems a plausible place to arrange for > choosing a location and putting a note into it. Annotations > are like bookmarks with text that also go the other > direction. It's natural to combine the idea of a bookmark > and the idea of an annotation. > > You might want the mode line to say "there is bookmark to > this (web page, file, etc.)" as one character and "there is > a text note about this" as another character. Thus, if you > have annotated a file and the file is unmodified, you will > see "-u:--!!" and if you have merely bookmarked the location > without commenting on it, then you will see "-u:--!-". > === snip > >