Re: Automatic noexport tag based on rules?

From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Automatic noexport tag based on rules?
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:39:54 -0600	[thread overview]
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On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not handy with emacs-lisp, but perhaps someone could whip up a
> handy function that iterates org-refile over each TODO heading to move
> it into a new, top-level * Tasks headline?
>
>
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not a huge fan, but it would get done what I
want to accomplish as far as the export goes.

> Then you can tag the tasks headline with :noexport:. This would
> destroy the "context", but I find keeping tasks in a separate heading
> fine for most of *my* medium sized projects. YMMV.
>

Yeah.. most of my todos aren't medium-sized projects, though. Many of them
are more along the lines of one-liner action items I need to jot to myself
so I don't forget as well as keeping them as a sort of rolling "next
actions" queue. For that reason, I'd much rather keep them in their original
context.

This can't be too hard.

,---
| sed '/[*]* TODO/ s/$/   :noexport:/g'
`---

Or (facetious)

,---
| setq (prefix-for-noexport-custom-variable)
| setq (default-tags-for-no-export-variable)
`---

I just don't know what the elegant, "right" elisp/org method is for
something like this.

John

> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:29 PM, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My apologies if this has been discussed. I couldn't find it. I write
> > everything from work in org-mode for several reasons. Primarily, it's my
> > documentation system for research in order to properly document
> Intellectual
> > Property (IP) information. It's also for todos and contacts. When it
> comes
> > to exporting my notes into PDF for use in an IP notebook... I dont' want
> my
> > todos in there.
> > Is there a way to automatically tag TODOs with :noexport:?
> > Or simply add the TODO category to the noexport category altogether?
> > I haven't turned up anything quite along these lines. One post suggested
> > using "TODO keyword COMMENT" [1], but that just seems to perhaps exclude
> > from export (didn't try) but I know for sure it removes it from agenda
> view.
> > I want TODOs in agenda but don't want them showing up with my LaTeX
> export.
> > I typically print out my work to-date each month or so and have to comb
> > through my org file for that month, manually adding :noexport: to my
> TODOs.
> > Even if I still do this for a few things here and there... it will save
> me a
> > lot of time.
> > I suppose I could keep a separate "TODO.org" file, but I really like the
> > process of being able to add them anywhere -- it seems more natural to do
> > that in the flow, particularly in meetings, than to constantly switch
> > buffers or even use remember to keep sending things related to the
> current
> > topic away to their own island.
> > I'm 80% confident that the answer is ridiculously simply and I just
> haven't
> > searched the right thing. Thanks for enlightening me!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
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