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From: Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-mode for knowledge management
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:47:24 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k343cnxv.wl-n142857@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcAo8vjW0Amfrj1tejPUDabgpryra4ebXh2=LDa=+xS9HAu7A@mail.gmail.com>


Thanks, that's a very simple way to search backlinks! I didn't know about org-search-view.


El Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:17:27 -0700 Samuel Wales va escriure:
> 
> (defun alpha-org-what-links-here ()
>   "Show all links that point to the current node.  Also show the
> node itself.
> 
> This makes id links quasi-bidirectional."
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((org-agenda-files (alpha-org-all-org-files
>                            :archive t
>                            :text-search-extra t))
>         ;; turn off redundancy
>         ;;   fixme probably going to be redone
>         org-agenda-text-search-extra-files)
>     (org-search-view nil (org-entry-get nil "ID" t))))
> 
> 
> On 10/12/14, Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com> wrote:
> > El Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:42:28 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen va escriure:
> >> >
> >> > This is the bit I'm not sure about...
> >> >
> >> > * project_a
> >> > ** experiment about blah     :proj_name:theme:
> >> > [2014-10-11]
> >> >
> >> > Did x, y, and z today. Will analyze results tomorrow.
> >> >
> >> > [2014-10-12]
> >> >
> >> > Wow. Interesting finding. This will help a lot and may be relevant to
> >> > future projects!
> >> >
> >> …
> >>
> >> Perhaps both links and tags are what you're after then: you could leave
> >> a link to the general finding inside "experiment about blah" (to remind
> >> yourself you took that note), but also use the tags to open Agendas on
> >> both project and theme, so you can see all the relevant information in
> >> one place.
> >>
> >
> >
> >> > * project_a
> >> > ** experiment about blah     :proj_name:theme:
> >
> >   I think it's crazy to use topics as tags. How many topics/themes are
> > there? Wikipedia counts many million. Names of topic are very subjective.
> > Topics are often mixed, split apart, refined, renamed, grouped in
> > supertopics, …
> >   In org it's easy to remodel hierarchical headers but it's not easy to
> > remodel tags (much less, hierarchical tags).
> >
> >   So rather than:
> >
> > ** some construction          :plastics_engineering:
> >
> >
> >   I would have:
> >
> > Engineering.org:
> > * Plastics
> > * Houses
> > * …
> >
> >
> >   I understand you use tags and „tag search“ to be able to look for bits of
> > a particular topic in a file which is not related to the topic.
> >   It would be better to have a tag that in addition links to a particular
> > tree. With that you'd have the freedom of tagging anything and the
> > flexibility of headers.
> >
> >   Some brainstorming about how to link tags with headers: Two options:
> >
> > 1) There is a main tag in a header, and the other tags link to it (with C-c
> > C-o you navigate to the main tag).
> >
> > proj1.org:
> > ** some construction          :plastics_engineering:
> >
> > Engineering.org:          :<<<plastics_engineering>>>:
> > * Plastics
> > * Houses
> > * …
> >
> >
> > 2) You use links and you ask for backlinks
> >
> > proj1.org:
> > ** some construction [link to P]
> >
> > Engineering.org:
> > * Plastics
> >   :ID: 1231212311122
> > * Houses
> > * …
> >
> > And then… a key to *search for links to a header* („backlinks“). Can org do
> > this now?.
> > E.g. you go to „Plastics“ and you search „all the backlinks found in
> > proj1.org“. Then you have the generic knowledge and in addition all the bits
> > of specific knowledge about that topic.
> >
> >
> > Maybe this is already possible… Whether it's useful, I don't know.
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> The Kafka Pandemic: http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com
> 
> The disease DOES progress.  MANY people have died from it.  And
> ANYBODY can get it.
> 
> Denmark: free Karina Hansen NOW.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-14  3:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-09 22:17 org-mode for knowledge management Louis
2014-10-09 23:54 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-10-10 15:46   ` Daniel Clemente
2014-10-10 21:40     ` mbork
2014-10-10 21:48     ` John Hendy
2014-10-11  2:53       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-12  4:54         ` John Hendy
2014-10-13  2:42           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-13  3:15             ` Daniel Clemente
2014-10-13  5:17               ` Samuel Wales
2014-10-14  3:47                 ` Daniel Clemente [this message]
2014-10-14  1:14               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-11 11:36       ` Daniel Clemente
2014-10-11 19:45         ` Brady Trainor
2014-10-12  4:29           ` Daniel Clemente
2014-10-12  5:03         ` John Hendy
2014-10-12  7:48           ` Daniel Clemente
2014-10-14  2:14             ` John Hendy
2014-10-10  0:18 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-10-10  2:32   ` Louis
2014-10-10  2:34   ` Louis
2014-10-13 19:29   ` Louis
2014-10-13 19:36     ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-10-13 23:10       ` Louis
2014-10-13 13:11 ` Brett Viren

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