Re: Remembrance Agent and Orgmode

[Benjamin Slade <slade@jnanam.net>]

Dear Eric,

Many thanks for this; it was very useful: I've got the Remembrance Agent
up and running now.


Eric Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi,
>
> sorry I am coming late to this thread.  I use the Remembrance Agent.  It
> works great for me, trawling both emails and all my text (org, latex,
> etc.) documents automatically for similarities in text while I
> write.  It's ideal for academic writing (papers, proposals).
>
> The agent is not intrusive at all, assuming you have a large enough
> display and works particularly well if you use a display in portrait
> orientation, as I do for writing.
>
> There are two elements to setting this up: the emacs side and the
> remembrance agent itself.  For emacs, my settings are straightforward:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (setq hilit-background-mode 'dark) ; if you have a dark background, obviously ;-)
> (require 'remem)
> (setq remem-database-dir "/home/ucecesf/s/share/remembrance-agent"
>       remem-load-original-suggestion t
>       remem-prog-dir "/usr/bin"
>       remem-scopes-list '(("documents" 4 5 500)
>                           ("mail" 4 10 500)
>                           ))
> #+end_src
>
> For the agent itself, I use cron to update the databases every night
> with an entry that looks like this:
>
> ,----
> | 12 4 * * * sh /home/ucecesf/s/bin/ra-buildindices.sh
> `----
>
> The contents of that shell script are:
>
> #+begin_src sh
> #!/bin/sh -f
> B="/home/ucecesf/s/share/remembrance-agent"
> ra-index ${B}/mail ${HOME}/s/News/agent/nnimap/ucl > /dev/null
> ra-index ${B}/documents ${HOME}/s/notes ${HOME}/s/grants ${HOME}/s/talks ${HOME}/s/papers ${HOME}/s/projects > /dev/null
> #+end_src
>
> In all of the above, you will need to change all the appropriate paths
> for the location of the databases and the places to search.  The two
> index commands trawl my emails and my relevant documents respectively.
>
> I hope this helps.


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