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At Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:35:29 -0500, Matthew Lundin wrote:
> 
> > I don't know how to deal with attachments.
> > Attachments, for me, are usually ephemeral and usually types of
> > documents I don't particularly like to deal with (typically MS Word or
> > PPT).
> 
> I believe org-attach achieves this end admirably. When you use
> org-attach to "attach" a document to a headline, it will deposit the
> file (or, if you prefer, a link to the file) in a location defined by
> the variable org-attach-directory. The file and the headline are linked
> via a global id property. You can open the file from the heading to
> which it is attached by calling org-attach again.
> 
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Attachments.html
> 
> Obviously, if these files are ephemeral, you can leave the
> org-attach-directory outside of your version control system.

Thanks for your input on this, Matt.  That approach (using a directory
outside my version control hierarchy) makes sense.  It sort of
emulates what I'm doing already which is to use explicit links to
files.  Time to play...