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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Organizing by time or by subject and an idea
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:00:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqea6bfl.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87obtxb491.wl%max@openchat.com> (Max Mikhanosha's message of "Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:59:38 -0500")

Max Mikhanosha <max@openchat.com> writes:

> At Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:04:51 -0600,
> John Hendy wrote:

[...]

> Generally I think the way to tackle this is to take advantage that you
> are working with plain text and not with Word document, and use
> standard Emacs/Unix tools for working with text.

Agreed!

> Some ideas:
>
> Before updating each project, cut-n-paste it into the new
> revision.. Org mode makes it easy to cut-n-paste trees, for myself
> duplicating a headline is simply pressing Y then P over a folded
> headline (viper/vimpulse user)

Is it not easier to simply make use of any of the revision control
systems (git, mercurial, svn, even RCS) that are out there?  You can
easily tag a particular revision based on milestones and then see diffs
between the current content and any previous version.

In terms of the original questions, I use a combination of hierarchical
structure that is filled in as a project develops, with
revision control to allow me to see progress, together with a log based
recording of activities (e.g. meetings, deliverables delivered, issues
raised).  That is, I mix both of the approaches mentioned by John in his
initial email.

The key, as John has already stated, is to record everything!  With
emacs, I can usually pull out what I want *if* the information was
recorded in the first place.

Finally, tags can be very useful for quick searching as well.

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1
: using Org-mode version 7.8.03 (release_7.8.03.192.g32af)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-23  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-20 18:04 Organizing by time or by subject and an idea John Hendy
2012-01-21 12:59 ` Max Mikhanosha
2012-01-21 13:09   ` Max Mikhanosha
2012-01-21 15:57   ` Max Mikhanosha
2012-01-23  9:00   ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2012-01-30 23:11     ` John Hendy
2012-01-31  0:26       ` Bernt Hansen
2012-01-31 13:10       ` Eric S Fraga
2012-02-10 19:47 ` John Hendy
2012-02-11  2:03   ` Bernt Hansen
2012-02-11  2:07     ` John Hendy

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