From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-mode for knowledge management
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 01:54:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oatkkdes.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1410091554260.17286@caritas.hethcote.pvt>
On 2014-10-10, at 00:17, Louis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using org-mode for a variety of purposes for a few years. I find
> that it suffers from the same problem that other such tools do. The
> problem is me. I can't remember week to week how I may have classified
> some scrap of information. Did I drop it into notes/someproduct.org or was
> it procedures/someprocess.org?
>
> While working through this, I've used #+INDEX: Topic!subtopic which helps
> but is not sufficiently granular.
>
> I'm thinking about approaches using properties or drawers. Has any of you
> done something like this, or done something similar that I've not
> considered?
Did you consider a /totally opposite/ approach? I'm currently
reorganizing my org files (I had about 15 of them) so that I will be
able to cut them down to ≈ half that value. The fewer, the better. And
grep is your friend. (I haven't yet got accustomed to C-c a s, but it's
really good.)
Also, if English is not your native language, consider making notes in
English. Whether you like it or not, it has one huge advantage: it's
/simple/. Almost no inflections, so grepping English texts is /much/
easier than, say, Polish (we have /a lot/ of inflections). (In this
regard, Esperanto is even better, though personally I'm not fluent
enough in it to make my notes in Esperanto comfortably.)
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Your rapidly graying, Louis
Hth,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-09 23:54 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 [this message]
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
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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