?? While taking note, capture a note with reciprocal links to/from current location

?? While taking note, capture a note with reciprocal links to/from current location

[lngndvs]

  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
   

Re: ?? While taking note, capture a note with reciprocal links to/from current location

[Russell Adams]

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.


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Re: ?? While taking note, capture a note with reciprocal links to/from current location

[John Hendy]

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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