Re: Keeping metadata/notes about files and directories

[Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com>]

See the custom commands for the agenda in the manual. You can create a
command to do a search in specific files.

The framework would be splitting your big org file into multiple files
and creating a custom search that search only in those particular
files. Of course you would need to change this custom command definition
if you add more files, but with the idea of using one file per year from
the other thread that means updating the custom command only once an
year.

I didn't test this so see how searching in all of these files scale when
compared to searching in one big file, but I imagine it would be faster.

--
Darlan Cavalcante Moreira


Christoph Groth writes:

> Dear all,
>
> I just wrote under the subject “Re: Managing articles in org mode 
> and collaboration”.  This posting puts the other one in a broader 
> context.
>
> While thinking about organizing articles, I asked myself: Wouldn’t 
> it be useful to keep metadata/notes about *various* kinds of 
> files/sub-directories/projects inside org-mode (or something 
> similar)?
>
> One example is a collection of programming projects.  Just like 
> for articles, it would be useful to add notes and metadata to each 
> project.  The same is true for many other archive-like collections 
> of things that grow over time.  The same problems appear as 
> described in the other posting (namely scaling and searching).
>
> I know that there have been discussions about this in the past, 
> and I know that there’s org-annotate-file.  Is there anyone who 
> uses a scheme like this (for >1000 items, say) in practice?
>
> Christoph