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From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)
Subject: Re: org-mode for knowledge management
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 09:36:10 -1000
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Louis <lbmlist@hethcote.com> writes:

> On Thu, 9 Oct 2014, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>
>> Aloha Louis,
>>
>> Louis <lbmlist@hethcote.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've been using org-mode for a variety of purposes for a few years. I
>>> find that it suffers from the same problem that other such tools
>>> do. The problem is me. I can't remember week to week how I may have
>>> classified some scrap of information. Did I drop it into
>>> notes/someproduct.org or was it procedures/someprocess.org?
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps org-index in contrib would help?
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-index.html
>>
>> hth,
>> Tom
>
> It looks promising. I haven't figured out the trick of it yet, though.
>
> Do you go to the target node and do an org-index link, then goto the
> index table and do an org-index fill?
>
> Anybody have some usage tips?

Does the working example
(http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-index.html#sec-5) work for you?

hth,
Tom

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