From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: Synchronizing folder structure with heading structure (was: Create sub-directories and files from within org) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:19:48 +0200 Message-ID: <2013-10-19T10-59-51@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> References: Reply-To: news1142@Karl-Voit.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58820) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXShc-0004Gq-Ak for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 05:20:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXShX-00041m-FQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 05:20:08 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35990) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXShX-0003vU-9Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 05:20:03 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VXShT-0005Qo-Th for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:19:59 +0200 Received: from mail.michael-prokop.at ([88.198.6.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:19:59 +0200 Received: from news1142 by mail.michael-prokop.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:19:59 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org * Chris Henderson wrote: > > If I create a project with ** project name, is there any way to create a > sub-directory at *** level in ~/projects/project name and create txt files > in that directory - all from within org? Disclaimer: this is not an answer to your question but a remark. I know of a cool project (non Org-mode related) from the Personal Information Management professor William Jones (Univ. of Washington) which is called Planz[1][4] (videos: [5]). Its associated data standard is called xooml[2]. (In case you are more interested in this project/topic, drop me a line and I will happily share white papers and links.) Simplified, the idea is that you can manage your files together with an outlining structure of text, links, and such. The SW is Windows-only. However, I found the idea very appealing because it synchronizes folder structure together with the structure of your text information. It's a research software and thus it is not that good maintained. Prof. Jones was a reviewer of my PhD thesis[3]. And we discussed a bit the similarities and differences of Org-mode (my favorite tool) to Planz (his favorite tool). Since Planz is a decent Windows interface with cool workflow support, I was thinking about implementing a bi-directional synchronization tool between Org-mode and Planz. This should not be that tough to do since xooml is based on text files (XML) and Org-mode supports attached files and folders and such. However, my focus changed (and I am not using Windows) and therefore the idea pretty much died on my SOMEDAY ocean :-( I just wanted to throw in this idea. Maybe somebody finds Planz/xooml that cool that he/she is willing to spend a few LISP-hours with it :-) For the sake of completeness, I want to add that there is also research work from Boardman et al. (approx. 2000-2006) who was researching and propagating synchronizing hierarchical structures in emails, bookmarks, file system, and so on. WorkspaceMirror is a tool which was developed within this project. Interesting stuff to read. In case you are interested in reading more about those projects, get my PhD thesis from [3] (whitepaper section). In the background chapter, there is plenty of cool stuff described and linked :-) 1. http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/planner_index.htm 2. https://code.google.com/p/xooml/source/browse/#svn/trunk/Planz 3. http://tagstore.org 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planz 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0YbebvDUd0&noredirect=1 -- mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML to Org-mode: > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs < https://github.com/novoid/extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode + more on github