From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Uwe Brauer Subject: Re: orgmode and a database Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:31:33 +0000 Message-ID: <8760vwl52y.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <87shz1f97s.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43949) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anOH2-0003Jx-69 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 06:31:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anOGx-0004Rk-Aw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 06:31:52 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33367) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anOGx-0004Rg-3d for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 06:31:47 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1anOGv-0000K6-Ah for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:31:45 +0200 Received: from gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es ([147.96.12.99]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:31:45 +0200 Received: from oub by gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:31:45 +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 >>> "Ken" == Ken Mankoff writes: > On 2016-04-04 at 15:46, Uwe Brauer wrote: >> I am looking for a sort of database I could use with orgmode. Anybody >> has a suggestion? What's about recutils? > Can you be more specific? Well my first shot would be something like a mediawiki software which is connected say to a mysql server. I can search wiki, but then most likely I could move files in a directory and run grep. So what about some functionally openoffice or filemaker (a commercial software which runs on Mac or on Windows) provide. You write data in a table and then can run searches which produce new (smaller tables). > Org tables? They can be joined... Now I don't understand what you mean be joined, linked? > Org supports SQLite > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-sqlite.html > http://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-database.html Yeah that looks a bit to hackerish to me. > And many use Org PROPERTY drawers as a database (for example, the > address book support/examples). That is maybe more what I need, could that be used in tables? Uwe