From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: property searches for #+CATEGORY
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:15:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wb2p2f9.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071107111730.GH13544@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> (Adam Spiers's message of "Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:17:30 +0000")
Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> writes:
> I have several personal .org files, and several work-related ones too.
> In each personal file, I have a line:
>
> #+CATEGORY: personal
>
> and in each work-related file, I have a line:
>
> #+CATEGORY: work
>
> I would like to be able to bind agenda custom commands to do tag
> searches which are narrowed to one of these categories, e.g. "show me
> all personal priority #A tasks". Such a search needs to span *all*
> agenda files, therefore the standard per-buffer narrowing provided by
> the '<' binding in the *Agenda Commands* buffer is insufficient.
>
> Would it make sense to include CATEGORY as a special property? After
> all, pretty much all other per-task meta-data ("TODO", "PRIORITY"
> etc.) are already available via the property interface, and this way,
> I could easily achieve what I need with tag searches such as
>
> CATEGORY="personal"+PRIORITY="A"
I understand now.
I think it would be clearer to distinguish between categorizing files
and categorizing tasks. In a sense, using #+CATEGORY across several
files (as you do) is more a way to group these files under the same
ombrella (conveniently called "category"), rather than to group all
tasks below each #+CATEGORY in the same category.
Let me say it with other words: if several files share the same
#+CATEGORY, then this bit of information won't be of any help to
distinguish between these files' tasks, it will only help separating
files with #+CATEGORY: A from files with #+CATEGORY: B.
Then I think the right solution would be to have groups of agenda files.
Something like:
#+AGENDA_GROUP: personal
This would let you restrict any agenda search to a group of agenda
files. I don't want to digg too far in this direction, but I think
there are a few other things for which such groups might be useful
(e.g. publish agenda files per group...)
My other concern is that the functionality you're requesting would
resurrect #+CATEGORY, while this functionality was mostly maintained
for backward compatibility -- at least I understood it like that.
It's not that easy for users to understand how to user categories,
and staying with two ways of setting them might be confusing IMO.
PS: Personally, the problem you encounter is exactly the one that
led me to use a single (really) big Org file. But this is entirely
personal, of course!
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-07 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-07 11:17 property searches for #+CATEGORY Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 12:49 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 12:15 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 13:23 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2007-11-07 13:34 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 13:59 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2007-11-07 14:28 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 14:52 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2007-11-07 16:35 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 16:15 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-11-07 18:07 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-08 4:55 ` Bastien
2007-11-08 8:54 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-11-07 14:49 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 14:32 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 14:15 ` Bastien [this message]
2007-11-07 13:52 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 17:16 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 17:23 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-08 4:42 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 16:20 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-11-08 0:04 ` Adam Spiers
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-07 23:35 Mario E. Munich
2008-12-08 16:40 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-09 0:33 ` Mario E. Munich
2008-12-09 1:41 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-09 6:51 ` Mario E. Munich
2008-12-07 23:39 Mario E. Munich
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