From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Best practices? Multiple .org files? Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:55:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87ippbqf1g.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> References: <4E5FC269.3000700@berkeley.edu> <4E60B155.7060708@christianmoe.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58467) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QzTHw-0005LZ-3m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:56:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QzTHu-0004iN-S9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:56:04 -0400 Received: from vscani-e.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.33]:39559) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QzTHu-0004iD-Nw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:56:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E60B155.7060708@christianmoe.com> (Christian Moe's message of "Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:35:01 +0200") 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: mail@christianmoe.com Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Brian Wood Christian Moe writes: > On 9/1/11 7:35 PM, Brian Wood wrote: >> (...) I'm thinking that I should break up >> this file into multiple .org files in a directory. If I do that: > >> >> 1. I would like to still see the same top-level tree that I see now >> when I shift-Tab e.g: >> >> * Admin >> * Drupal >> * MacOS >> * Linux >> * Time Reports >> >> So if I create drupal.org that contains the contents of "* Drupal", >> and I remove "* Drupal" from work.org, is there a way to still see my >> top level tree including "Drupal"? > > I keep some top-level headings in my central `my.org' file after I've > hived off the contents to other org files, just to have a convenient > link to the file and save myself having to remember how I named it. > > So I'd do something like: > > * Admin > * [[file:./drupal.org][Drupal]] > * MacOS > * Linux > * Time Reports > > Don't forget to add the new files to your agenda files, the agenda > view being the chief way of pulling together all your tasks. > > Yours, > Christian > This might be sacrilegious (:-) but I use Emacs bookmarks to be able to jump easily to headings in my various org files. Easy to set up and very easy to use. I bookmark a number of headings and thereafter don't care which actual org files they reside in. See bookmark-set, bookmark-bmenu-list and bookmark-jump. At least in Emacs 24.0.50.x, the bookmark package is available by default. Probably in earlier versions but cannot easily check... -- Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D)