From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Lundin Subject: Re: multiple users org mode Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:21:46 -0500 Message-ID: <87wrlnaiyt.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: <87ei7xqzbc.fsf@kanis.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50728 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjBgU-0005G1-B9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:21:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjBgT-0007Tu-9m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:21:50 -0500 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:40391) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjBgT-0007Th-7j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:21:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87ei7xqzbc.fsf@kanis.fr> (Ivan Kanis's message of "Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:09:43 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ivan Kanis Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Ivan Kanis writes: > During the org camp in Paris at one point the someone asked "hey org is > wonderful but how do we use it with multiple users?" > > I am trying to envision what this would look like. One way to do it > would be to have users share their .org on a network drive. Org would > have to be able to fusion the multiple files into one. For example let's > imagine two users sharing a project: > > User 1 > > * project > ** TODO action a > ** TODO action b > > User 2 > > * project > ** TODO action c > ** TODO action b > > The consolidated org file would look like this > > * project > ** TODO action a > ** TODO action b > ** TODO action c > ** TODO action b > > How do you envision multiple users org usage? I think it would be a > wonderful feature. Two ideas: 1. Instead of merging separate files, might one not use a common project file and rely on tags and categories to mark ownership of tasks? Bastien has a nice example of this in his column view tutorial: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-column-view-tutorial.html#sec-5 Similar example in the manual: (info "(org) Column attributes") Merging in this scenario could then be left to git (or some other dvcs). 2. User one file per user and rely on the agenda to create a task list for the entire project. Best, Matt