From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
Cc: Emacs-orgmode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: refiling
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:17:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5ptkgx4.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b4df521.0437560a.1e6b.338c@mx.google.com> (Richard Riley's message of "Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:30:23 +0100")
Hi Richard,
Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
> Two major issues for me to get my head around.
>
> 1) Tags v Categories. Its not entirely obvious to me what categories are
> for. Are they like a more specialised tag?
Categories are primarily for visibility in the agenda. I use them to
remind myself what project or "area of responsibility" an item belongs
to. If I label a particular project with the category "article", I can
easily identify tasks belonging to that project. E.g., tasks from the
following project...
,----
| * PROJECT Write article :PROJECT:
| :PROPERTIES:
| :CATEGORY: article
| :END:
| ** TODO Do some online research :computer:
| SCHEDULED: <2010-01-13 Wed>
| ** TODO Outline article :rwb:
| SCHEDULED: <2010-01-13 Wed>
`----
...appear as follows in the agenda:
,----
| Day-agenda (W02):
| Wednesday 13 January 2010
| article: Scheduled: TODO Do some online research :computer:
| article: Scheduled: TODO Outline article :rwb:
`----
Thanks to the category, I can see what project the otherwise cryptic "Do
some online research" belongs to.
> 2) Refiling. Lets says I have something like this in linux.org:-
>
> * general :general:
> #+CATEGORY: general
> ** learn org mode :emacs:org:
> blah blah
> * debian :debian:
> #+CATEGORY: debian
> * test
This syntax for categories has been deprecated. Better to use
properties, as in the example above.
>
> if I refile from elsewhere, it picks ALL items at a level to refile to when I select
> linux.org.
>
> e.g linux.org/general, linux.org/debian, linux.org/test
>
> If I then select "general" it also prompts for me now to select "learn
> org mode". Is this because of some hangover from me using org-mode? In
> other words I cant refile to linux.org/debian.
Refile completion follows the hierarchy of your outline. Thus, once you
have limited the results to linux.org/general, org-refile will only
offer you subtrees belonging to "general." If you want more flexible
completion, you can fiddle around with the variables
org-refile-use-outline-path, org-completion-use-ido,
and org-outline-path-complete-in-steps.
Best,
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-13 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-13 16:30 refiling Richard Riley
2010-01-13 16:41 ` refiling Richard Riley
2010-01-13 17:33 ` refiling Manish
2010-01-13 17:45 ` refiling Richard Riley
2010-01-13 18:17 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2010-01-13 18:27 ` refiling Richard Riley
2010-01-13 19:07 ` refiling John Rakestraw
2010-01-13 19:40 ` refiling Richard Riley
2010-01-14 6:16 ` refiling Manish
2010-01-15 7:08 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-01-15 10:21 ` refiling Richard Riley
2010-01-15 14:35 ` refiling John Rakestraw
2010-01-15 17:32 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-25 5:27 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-25 16:01 ` John Rakestraw
2010-06-25 16:21 ` Carsten Dominik
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