From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kybic Subject: Re: DAG structure / hard links / shared subtrees Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:11:25 +0100 Message-ID: <8739c1g3ya.fsf@fel.cvut.cz> References: <87liq4uda8.fsf@fel.cvut.cz> <87ty4iyzgy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Reply-To: kybic@fel.cvut.cz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35172) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rgjjh-0000ug-0F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:11:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rgjjf-0006jT-2K for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:11:32 -0500 Received: from mail-ee0-f41.google.com ([74.125.83.41]:61263) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rgjje-0006jO-U6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:11:31 -0500 Received: by eekc41 with SMTP id c41so15009976eek.0 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:11:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87ty4iyzgy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:13:17 +0000") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan Kybic tel. +420 2 2435 5721 or 5877 http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~kybic ICQ 200569450