From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ?? While taking note, capture a note with reciprocal links to/from current location
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:57:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft-kYRQFvmJupdS+G4kJO944Wu2yPuMRjp+KaBnaeOU_4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120212065015.GA3140@x201>
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Russell Adams
<RLAdams@adamsinfoserv.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 07:54:03PM -0800, lngndvs@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> I am studying some text in an org file, some comments from a colleague
>> on a research project. I need to do a little google search about a
>> term (something that happens quite often). It would be convenient to
>> produce a note elsewhere, perhaps in a different file, or perhaps
>> under a different top-level heading in the same file, with a note to
>> the term where the cursor is (let's say I've selected it as the
>> region). I want to capture some notes, perhaps some quite copious
>> notes, and when done I would like reciprocal links to bind these
>> bits. Then I can take some good notes on the terms or the topic in
>> my colleague's notes, and return, and so forth.
>>
>> I could do this, and it's not too difficult. However, it would be
>> *very* helpful to do this with one capture event. Does a facility
>> exist for this?
>>
>> Let me say that I think it does, and it relates to the %a element of a
>> template. However, I would like permanent links, say of the
>> current region to the note resulting from the capture event, and vise
>> versa.
>>
>> I thought of footnotes, but this footnote could end up being a whole
>> chapter, or a small section, in a report!
>>
>> Thank you for any suggestions. I apologize in advance, because I'm
>> sure this is no challenge for the gurus on this list.
>>
>> Alan Davis
>>
>>
>
> Org-capture. It's a great feature, press a key and take a note to a
> known location and the template can store date, time, and where you
> were when the note occurred.
>
But he's also asking for "reciprocal links" (bi-directional, I take
it). This doesn't exist that I know of, though strangely it *just*
came up last week, though for refiling and creating a bi-directional
link. Pretty much the same idea. Send something new or existing to a
new location and have a two way link in both places.
-- http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg51480.html
John
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2012-02-12 3:54 ?? While taking note, capture a note with reciprocal links to/from current location lngndvs
2012-02-12 6:50 ` Russell Adams
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