From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Darlan Cavalcante Moreira Subject: Re: Keeping metadata/notes about files and directories Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:53:24 -0300 Message-ID: <877g0u83ej.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87oau68nnc.fsf@grothesque.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWX5j-0002Xf-4x for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:53:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWX5a-0001Af-0t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:53:43 -0400 Received: from mail-qa0-x233.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c00::233]:55901) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWX5Z-00018f-S6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:53:33 -0400 Received: by mail-qa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id j7so2197841qaq.24 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:53:28 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <87oau68nnc.fsf@grothesque.org> 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: Christoph Groth Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org See the custom commands for the agenda in the manual. You can create a command to do a search in specific files. The framework would be splitting your big org file into multiple files and creating a custom search that search only in those particular files. Of course you would need to change this custom command definition if you add more files, but with the idea of using one file per year from the other thread that means updating the custom command only once an year. I didn't test this so see how searching in all of these files scale when compared to searching in one big file, but I imagine it would be faster. -- Darlan Cavalcante Moreira Christoph Groth writes: > Dear all, > > I just wrote under the subject “Re: Managing articles in org mode > and collaboration”. This posting puts the other one in a broader > context. > > While thinking about organizing articles, I asked myself: Wouldn’t > it be useful to keep metadata/notes about *various* kinds of > files/sub-directories/projects inside org-mode (or something > similar)? > > One example is a collection of programming projects. Just like > for articles, it would be useful to add notes and metadata to each > project. The same is true for many other archive-like collections > of things that grow over time. The same problems appear as > described in the other posting (namely scaling and searching). > > I know that there have been discussions about this in the past, > and I know that there’s org-annotate-file. Is there anyone who > uses a scheme like this (for >1000 items, say) in practice? > > Christoph