From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Lundin Subject: Re: How you ORGanize yourself? (aka: Why not one file to rule'em all?) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:50:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87k4s6ur0i.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O38OO-0003yj-9t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:49:04 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55740 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O38OM-0003yb-3f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:49:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O38OK-0005BO-9p for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:49:01 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:36778) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O38OK-0005BD-6R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:49:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Marcelo de Moraes Serpa's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:41:19 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa Cc: Org Mode Hi Marcelo, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa writes: > This is a thread to share your org dir (you have one right) file > structure. The title is because I see many of org users prefer having > big monolithic files, and I have a slightly different line of thought. I have a handful of central files: e.g, inbox.org, reading.org, computer.org, writing.org, and so on. I've found, however, that on my relatively modest machines org/outline buffers slow down at appr. 12,000+ lines and become more or less unnavigable at appr. 30,000+ lines (especially if they have a deeply nested structure). Whenever a file gets too large, I simply create new files for sub-projects and sub-topics (e.g., perl.org, emacs.org, etc.) and link to them from the main file (e.g., computer.org). I also do a lot of archiving. FWIW, I've found it quite convenient to rely on filetags to organize my notes. I've written a few functions that allow me to limit my agenda to a subset of agenda files that share a filetag (e.g., "emacs" or "writing"). This is a bit quicker than calling agenda commands on all agenda files and then filtering afterward. It also allows for greater focus on a particular area of work. Here are the functions: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.php#set-agenda-files-by-filetag Best, Matt