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From: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
To: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
Cc: Emacs-orgmode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: refiling
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:03:46 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7cdbe31001130933u2d8f0a73s53de90e703b7770b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b4df521.0437560a.1e6b.338c@mx.google.com>

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Richard Riley wrote:
>
> I'm a bit rusty so please excuse any stupid questions.
>
> I decided to clear up my org files which are, frankly, a mess.
>
> Two major issues for me to get my head around.
>
> 1) Tags v Categories. Its not entirely obvious to me what categories are
> for. Are they like a more specialised tag?

To me they are a means to provide some more context only.  But I do
not use them at all - I hide them using the excellent
my-org-agenda-toggle-list-category function courtesy Manuel
Hermengildo (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/10909).

>
> 2) Refiling. Lets says I have something like this in linux.org:-
>
> * general    :general:
> #+CATEGORY: general
> ** learn org mode   :emacs:org:
> blah blah
> * debian    :debian:
> #+CATEGORY: debian
>
> * test
>
> if I refile from elsewhere, it picks ALL items at a level to refile to when I select
> linux.org.
>
> e.g linux.org/general, linux.org/debian, linux.org/test
>
> If I then select "general" it also prompts for me now to select "learn
> org mode". Is this because of some hangover from me using org-mode? In
> other words I cant refile to linux.org/debian.

Not sure.. may be looking at varible
org-refile-allow-creating-parent-nodes would help.

HTH
-- 
Manish

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-13 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-13 16:30 refiling Richard Riley
2010-01-13 16:41 ` refiling Richard Riley
2010-01-13 17:33 ` Manish [this message]
2010-01-13 17:45   ` refiling Richard Riley
2010-01-13 18:17 ` refiling Matt Lundin
2010-01-13 18:27   ` refiling Richard Riley
2010-01-13 19:07     ` refiling John Rakestraw
2010-01-13 19:40       ` refiling Richard Riley
2010-01-14  6:16         ` refiling Manish
2010-01-15  7:08       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-01-15 10:21         ` refiling Richard Riley
2010-01-15 14:35         ` refiling John Rakestraw
2010-01-15 17:32           ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-25  5:27           ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-25 16:01             ` John Rakestraw
2010-06-25 16:21               ` Carsten Dominik

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