Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely consider that.
What do you mean by:
'For one thing, you won't be able to do advanced searching for tag/property
combinations, gather those properties into a column view or dynamic block
(for that you want regular Org properties). Nor easily access them from a
spreadsheet or source code elsewhere in the document (for that you want a
named table).'
Cheers

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>wrote:

> On 5/19/11 8:21 AM, Chris Barber wrote:
>
>> Hi, I am planning to record some ideas in org-mode, and I would love
>> to be able to set it out as follows:
>>
>> * Ideas
>> ** | Idea | A property | A property |
>> *** Regular outlined notes
>> Some notes
>> *** More sub notes
>> ** | Idea 2 | Property | Property |
>>
>> Is there any way for me to do this? Essentially it would function like
>> a table until you tab down into it.
>> I think this would be FANTASTIC!
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>
> Well, nothing prevents you from dividing up a heading with pipe characters,
> if you like the way it looks. It doesn't function like a table, but what
> table functionality is it that you want to use here?
>
> For one thing, you won't be able to do advanced searching for tag/property
> combinations, gather those properties into a column view or dynamic block
> (for that you want regular Org properties). Nor easily access them from a
> spreadsheet or source code elsewhere in the document (for that you want a
> named table).
>
> I suggest you rather consider tags and regular Org properties.
>
> * Idea     :A_Property:Another_Property:
> * Idea
>  :PROPERTIES:
>  :A_Property: value
>  :Another_Property: value2
>  :END:
>
> Yours,
> Christian
>