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From: Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org>
Subject: Re: benefit to having org files in one folder
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:11:35 -0700
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On Sat, Dec 10 2011, Herbert Sitz wrote:

> prad <prad <at> towardsfreedom.com> writes:
>> 
>> i read somewhere that we should keep orgfiles in an org folder.  i've
>> used org casually that way and otherwise.
>> 
>> what advantages are there to having them in a single folder?
>>
>
> It can be easier to specify agenda files if you have all of them in a
> single directory.  If you include a directory in the agenda-files
> variable then all .org files in that directory will automatically be
> included in agenda-files.

Perhaps the biggest advantage is that you can use a revision control
system to keep your files in sync across several computers.  If you have
your org files scatter all over your file system that becomes much more
difficult.

Jason