From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sandro Giessl Subject: Re: My reference data management approach with org and emacs Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 16:49:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87mxw16x0g.fsf@sandro.homelinux.org> References: <4BBFB8C0.8070208@jboecker.de> <4BC625AC.3000201@jboecker.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60803 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODIlg-00086k-Kr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 10:55:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODIlf-0003cR-5x for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 10:55:08 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44078) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODIlf-0003cA-01 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 10:55:07 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODIlb-0004yQ-Qb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 16:55:03 +0200 Received: from 95-90-120-183-dynip.superkabel.de ([95.90.120.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 May 2010 16:55:03 +0200 Received: from sandro.giessl by 95-90-120-183-dynip.superkabel.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 May 2010 16:55:03 +0200 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Jan, thanks a lot for your description. I've actually been using a similar setup of one big and unstructured reference/snippet file and a script for scanning paper documents away without spending too much time thinking about where to put the resulting files. The problem was that the scanned documents were accumulating in a scan-inbox directory, waiting to be filled into a file hierarchy... too much overhead for little additional gain when digging for reference documents again. Your setup seems to fill the gap between reference paper and org-mode, so I'm happy you shared it. =) One tiny remark to your defcustom declaration: (defcustom jb/filing-attachment-dir nil "The directory in which individual attachment dirs are created." :type 'string) resulted in an error message (custom-variable-mark-to-save: Symbol's value as variable is void: nilasdf) when trying to save the customize buffer. Customize was trying to save this value to ~/.emacs without "" around it. Using "" instead of nil in the declaration fixed this for me. 'C-c r p' also behaves a bit odd as long as jb/filing-attachment-dir isn't initialized yet, but I don't care. Best regards, Sandro