From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-mode for knowledge management
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:17:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8vjW0Amfrj1tejPUDabgpryra4ebXh2=LDa=+xS9HAu7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhokd5ii.wl-n142857@gmail.com>
(defun alpha-org-what-links-here ()
"Show all links that point to the current node. Also show the
node itself.
This makes id links quasi-bidirectional."
(interactive)
(let ((org-agenda-files (alpha-org-all-org-files
:archive t
:text-search-extra t))
;; turn off redundancy
;; fixme probably going to be redone
org-agenda-text-search-extra-files)
(org-search-view nil (org-entry-get nil "ID" t))))
On 10/12/14, Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com> wrote:
> El Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:42:28 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen va escriure:
>> >
>> > This is the bit I'm not sure about...
>> >
>> > * project_a
>> > ** experiment about blah :proj_name:theme:
>> > [2014-10-11]
>> >
>> > Did x, y, and z today. Will analyze results tomorrow.
>> >
>> > [2014-10-12]
>> >
>> > Wow. Interesting finding. This will help a lot and may be relevant to
>> > future projects!
>> >
>> …
>>
>> Perhaps both links and tags are what you're after then: you could leave
>> a link to the general finding inside "experiment about blah" (to remind
>> yourself you took that note), but also use the tags to open Agendas on
>> both project and theme, so you can see all the relevant information in
>> one place.
>>
>
>
>> > * project_a
>> > ** experiment about blah :proj_name:theme:
>
> I think it's crazy to use topics as tags. How many topics/themes are
> there? Wikipedia counts many million. Names of topic are very subjective.
> Topics are often mixed, split apart, refined, renamed, grouped in
> supertopics, …
> In org it's easy to remodel hierarchical headers but it's not easy to
> remodel tags (much less, hierarchical tags).
>
> So rather than:
>
> ** some construction :plastics_engineering:
>
>
> I would have:
>
> Engineering.org:
> * Plastics
> * Houses
> * …
>
>
> I understand you use tags and „tag search“ to be able to look for bits of
> a particular topic in a file which is not related to the topic.
> It would be better to have a tag that in addition links to a particular
> tree. With that you'd have the freedom of tagging anything and the
> flexibility of headers.
>
> Some brainstorming about how to link tags with headers: Two options:
>
> 1) There is a main tag in a header, and the other tags link to it (with C-c
> C-o you navigate to the main tag).
>
> proj1.org:
> ** some construction :plastics_engineering:
>
> Engineering.org: :<<<plastics_engineering>>>:
> * Plastics
> * Houses
> * …
>
>
> 2) You use links and you ask for backlinks
>
> proj1.org:
> ** some construction [link to P]
>
> Engineering.org:
> * Plastics
> :ID: 1231212311122
> * Houses
> * …
>
> And then… a key to *search for links to a header* („backlinks“). Can org do
> this now?.
> E.g. you go to „Plastics“ and you search „all the backlinks found in
> proj1.org“. Then you have the generic knowledge and in addition all the bits
> of specific knowledge about that topic.
>
>
> Maybe this is already possible… Whether it's useful, I don't know.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-13 5:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-09 22:17 org-mode for knowledge management Louis
2014-10-09 23:54 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-10-10 15:46 ` Daniel Clemente
2014-10-10 21:40 ` mbork
2014-10-10 21:48 ` John Hendy
2014-10-11 2:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-12 4:54 ` John Hendy
2014-10-13 2:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-13 3:15 ` Daniel Clemente
2014-10-13 5:17 ` Samuel Wales [this message]
2014-10-14 3:47 ` Daniel Clemente
2014-10-14 1:14 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-11 11:36 ` Daniel Clemente
2014-10-11 19:45 ` Brady Trainor
2014-10-12 4:29 ` Daniel Clemente
2014-10-12 5:03 ` John Hendy
2014-10-12 7:48 ` Daniel Clemente
2014-10-14 2:14 ` John Hendy
2014-10-10 0:18 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-10-10 2:32 ` Louis
2014-10-10 2:34 ` Louis
2014-10-13 19:29 ` Louis
2014-10-13 19:36 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-10-13 23:10 ` Louis
2014-10-13 13:11 ` Brett Viren
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