From: Jan Kybic <kybic@fel.cvut.cz>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: DAG structure / hard links / shared subtrees
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:11:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739c1g3ya.fsf@fel.cvut.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ty4iyzgy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:13:17 +0000")
>> I have a feature request. The structure of the org file is a tree.
>> I wondered if it could be made a directed acyclic graph (DAG) instead.
Thanks for the reaction.
>or simply refile the notes? I always go through the notes I have taken
>at a meeting after the meeting, in my case to define tasks etc. You
>could refile all the notes into the proper places in the hierarchy at
>this point. org has very nice refile support.
Yes, I am using a combination of refiling, tags, links and searches, and
it works. However, it looks fragile and ad hoc. As far as I see it, some things
just naturally can be classified using several hierarchies, like
something that concerns project A, was first discussed at meeting B and should
be consulted with person C. Where should I put it? I would like to be
able to find it in all three places. Moreover, I would like to prepare a
meeting with person C, make notes on the subject while we talk and then
have the notes available also when browsing the hierarchy of project A.
I have to choose one of the three trees and use tags or whatever
other means to make it visible in the other two trees. If I forget to
tag it, it is lost, very difficult to find again.
>> c) I can create the meeting agenda dynamically, by assigning tags to
>> projects and creating a sparse tree, e.g. from the Agenda
>> buffer. However, this requires me to mark every issue to be discussed
>> with a meeting-specific tag. I do not have much control over the order
>> in which the issues appear. I cannot structure them. The generation
>> takes time. And it is not straightforward to add new items to the
>> meeting.
>
>I am not sure how the hard links mechanism you suggest above would help
>in this case? Preparing an agenda can be difficult. What you could do
>is have special TODO labels for issues that need to be discussed at the
>next meeting?
>
Even with such TODO labels, how do I sort them into the order I want?
With links, it is easy, I just link all the issues I want to discuss to
the meeting subtree, in the order I want.
Thanks for your help.
Jan
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2011-12-22 10:11 DAG structure / hard links / shared subtrees Jan Kybic
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