From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Christopher W. Ryan" Subject: still struggling with workflow Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:48:00 -0400 Message-ID: <5048EFE0.4080702@binghamton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9h7b-0005ki-CD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:48:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9h7X-0000ew-Bu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:48:11 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:6851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9h7X-0000el-8I for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:48:07 -0400 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 I've been using org-mode for, oh about a year now, and it seems like a very useful tool. But I'm still struggling to understand and implement effective workflows for projects, re-using bits and pieces of text. For example, I have a general project related to heat wave morbidity and mortality, and indoor heat index. Hopefully I can parlay it into a number of distinct studies, each with IRB applications, grant applications, and papers (all pdf output), and presentations (beamer pdf output.) For example, all my stuff for the first study is in a single org file, HeatWaves1.org. The second project's documents will need to re-use much of that material, but not all of it; and there will be some new material. Is it viable to keep everything related to my heat wave work, for all substudies, in the one org file, and customize the output to my needs at different times, via judicious use of headlines and :export tags? Or is it best to start a new org file for each substudy and copy/paste what is needed from the old? Thanks. --Chris -- Christopher W. Ryan, MD, MS SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton 425 Robinson Street, Binghamton, NY 13904 cryanatbinghamtondotedu "Once we recognize that we do not err out of laziness, stupidity, or evil intent, we can liberate ourselves from the impossible burden of trying to be permanently right. We can take seriously the proposition that we could be in error, without deeming ourselves idiotic or unworthy." [Karen Schulz, in Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error]