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From: Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org>
To: Herbert Sitz <hesitz@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: benefit to having org files in one folder
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:11:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4634oyw.fsf@notengoamigos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20111211T012116-716@post.gmane.org> (Herbert Sitz's message of "Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:23:52 +0000 (UTC)")

On Sat, Dec 10 2011, Herbert Sitz wrote:

> prad <prad <at> towardsfreedom.com> writes:
>> 
>> i read somewhere that we should keep orgfiles in an org folder.  i've
>> used org casually that way and otherwise.
>> 
>> what advantages are there to having them in a single folder?
>>
>
> It can be easier to specify agenda files if you have all of them in a
> single directory.  If you include a directory in the agenda-files
> variable then all .org files in that directory will automatically be
> included in agenda-files.

Perhaps the biggest advantage is that you can use a revision control
system to keep your files in sync across several computers.  If you have
your org files scatter all over your file system that becomes much more
difficult.

Jason

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-11  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-10 17:44 benefit to having org files in one folder prad
2011-12-11  0:23 ` Herbert Sitz
2011-12-11  0:54   ` suvayu ali
2011-12-11  6:11   ` Jason Earl [this message]

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