From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: I must be missing something... Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:02:14 -0400 Message-ID: <87hbypo68p.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ME1uF-0001ru-Pi for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:02:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ME1uB-0001qv-76 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:02:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53606 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ME1uB-0001qo-1j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:02:23 -0400 Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:64908) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ME1uA-0002JL-It for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:02:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: (David Abrahams's message of "Tue\, 09 Jun 2009 09\:41\:13 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: David Abrahams Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org David Abrahams writes: > Hi, > Hi David! > I've been using and studying org mode for a few months now, and though > it seems to have great potential, some things still escape me. For > example, do my DONE items simply accumulate forever in todo.org? I know > there's an archiving feature... do I move those done items manually to > an archive when I no longer need to see them? Stuff accumulates and I personally archive subtrees manually once/month. > > > Also, how do I manage my projects? Org mode seems to "want" to put > everything in one big file. I know I *can* separate trees by file, but > it doesn't seem to be very convenient to do so. For example, if I'm > visiting a project file, is there a way to get an agenda view on just > /that/ file without having to modify org-agenda-files? I recently wrote about this here. http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#LimitingAgendaView Maybe that will help? > > I know I'm being a bit vague, but so far the basic operations of > org-mode, which were very fast to use at first, haven't "scaled up" very > easily to handle my whole life, and I'm not sure how to get there. > > Many thanks in advance for any advice you can give, I've been using org-mode for years and I use it for everything. A description of my work flow and setup for org-mode is at http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html in case that's useful. HTH, -Bernt