From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Scatter-gather idea Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:22:58 -0400 Message-ID: <87mvburi99.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: <87o9wgf376.fsf@bobnewell.net> <87d1cvga4r.fsf@bobnewell.net> <87shlqgldv.fsf@bobnewell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35048) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvmmh-0007Mw-3q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:23:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvmmd-0003df-VW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:23:47 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=35741 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvmmd-0003cx-Oi for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:23:43 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cvmmF-0001ht-US for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:23:19 +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" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Yasushi SHOJI writes: > Hi Bob, > > On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Bob Newell wrote: >> >> A simple use case: you're brainstorming, making org-mode headline >> entries as fast as you can think or type. After a while you notice that >> a number of entries seem to be related and might actually be better >> considered as a spin-off. So you want to gather up all of those entries >> and send them off in bulk to a different org file. > > mark them with tags, and do org-tags-view.  Or, you can use regex or other > criteria if you like. > That was my first thought too: I didn't think any extra functionality is needed. > If you want to refile them to a org file, mark entries you want to refile with > org-agenda-bulk-mark and do org-agenda-bulk-action and 'r' to select > a file. > > http://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-commands.html#Agenda-commands > -- >            yashi > -- Nick