From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tycho garen Subject: Re: [OT] How do you keep your reference data? Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:15:18 -0500 Message-ID: <20091125161518.GB31147@felix.linlan> References: <1e5bcefd0911081424p12eb6fa9te57ff4cfeb83fcdd@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDKWg-0003s5-C5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:15:30 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDKWa-0003lt-Vd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:15:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47076 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDKWa-0003ll-NK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:15:24 -0500 Received: from mail-vw0-f176.google.com ([209.85.212.176]:38920) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDKWa-0007WU-EU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:15:24 -0500 Received: by vws6 with SMTP id 6so2404733vws.14 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:15:23 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1e5bcefd0911081424p12eb6fa9te57ff4cfeb83fcdd@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa Cc: Org Mode On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 04:24:39PM -0600, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > Information that has no potential next action associated but that still has > potential reference value and that you'd like to keep around, how and where > do you keep it ? I (too) used to be a wiki person, and indeed I kept a pretty active personal wiki with novels, research for novels, scholarly work, task management, and the like all within an instance of Ikiwiki that I ran locally on my laptop. While I liked the fact that I could create new wiki pages at whim, and that I didn't need to fight to figure out where the info fitted in my 'system'. The problem with the wiki system, for me, is that wikis really need at want some serious ongoing maintenance and attention to prevent entropy from taking over. Wikis are about collaboration, and the great thing about wikis when they work a lot of people have to be there doing little bits of work: editing, writing, cataloging/categorization, organization and the like. When it was just me, I never wanted to do that work. I wrote a couple of posts about how I'm using org-mode to deal with the instant collection of useless facts and bits of information. They're located here: http://www.tychoish.com/2009/09/fact-files/ http://www.tychoish.com/2009/03/fact-file-and-orbital-mechanics/ ---- I'm not an "everything in org and nothing but org" kind of guy. Here's how my system works, in brief: - I have a bunch of org files for major projects and spheres of my life: my day/employment job, various major writing projects (mostly fiction) have their own folders, I have a 'technology and hacking' file, I have a general file, and a couple of other odds and ends. These files have notes, tasks, projects, and I mostly edit them via org-remember, org-agenda, and a little bit of org-refile, alas (it would be better to edit these files more organically.) - I also have a "data.org" file which I use as a fact file as defined in the blog posts. It doesn't really have tasks, though I do have a couple of reading-related statuses: "PROCESS" and the like. - All org files are in their own git repository (~/org/). Major fiction projects also have their own git repositories. Smaller projects including short fiction, blog writing, and the like all share a "writing" git repository. There's also a repo to track content as it relates to my day-job work. - I sometimes add specific .org files from other repositories and locations, to the agenda view. It seems to work pretty well. Cheers, sam -- tycho(ish) @ garen@tychoish.com http://www.tychoish.com/ http://www.cyborginstitute.com/ "don't get it right, get it written" -- james thurber