Migrating my current work flow to org-mode

Migrating my current work flow to org-mode

[Dov Grobgeld]

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Hello,

During the last few days I have learned about org-mode and I'm starting to
plan how to change my current work flow to org-mode. My current work flow is
as follows:

* At the beginning of every new day I create a horizontal line and a time
stamp.
* I use mediawiki == headers == for headers and * for bulleted items.

Here is the typical view for two days:

-----------------------------------------
Monday 2010-11-08 09:49

Worked: 8:00-17:15

== Done/Todo ==

* Add parameter somewhere so that energy graphs take into account that only
part of the panel receives radiation. Do this in run_specific_site.py.
* Teach Alex about python.

== Meeting with Alex and Betty ==

* Todo: run simulation for Tumbaktu.
:
-----------------------------------------
Tuesday 2010-11-09 8:31

Worked: 8:17-

== Engine changes ==

* All these will be changed to vector<Matrix>  M[panel*2]
** ground_collect_matrix Ok
** sky_diffuse_matrix Ok
** sky_beam_matrix Ok
----------------------------------------------

So now I am trying to figure out how to map this into org-mode. Here are
some observations and questions:

   - The horizontal rule is ok in paragraph mode.
   - The timestamp is ok by doing C-c .
   - But the "worked line" doesn't work if I try to use "C-c C-x TAB" as it
   complains "Before first headline". I could turn the row into a header or
   just insert plain text. Is there a more elegant solution? I don't want to
   have the "worked" line indexed. Note that the "worked" line is used at the
   end of the month to summarize the amount of work hours.
   - Is there any way of separating headers from items? I like the
   non-symmetry of the "==" syntax for headers and "*" for items, but I guess I
   can get used to that.
   - At my previous work place I used the same notebook file for more than
   10years(!) of notes, and needless to say it got to be very big (around 100k
   lines). Can org-mode handle that size files?
   - How can I customize the exported HTML? E.g. I don't like the table of
   contents or the numbering of headers.

But alltogether org-mode looks great! I'm looking forward to use it both on
my desktop and in emacs on my N900.

Thanks,
Dov

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Re: Migrating my current work flow to org-mode

[Giovanni Ridolfi]

Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,During the last few days I have learned about org-mode and
> I'm starting to plan how to change my current work flow to
> org-mode. 

You should read the tips and trisk of "power" users
and be inspired by their workflow.

Please have a look at the following web pages and also at worg[1] pages:
and the links there.

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-gtd-etc.php

cheers,
Giovanni

[1] http://orgmode.org/worg/
Worg is an attempt to collectively build a knowledge 
database about Org, planning in plain text and other related topics. 

Re: Migrating my current work flow to org-mode

[Eric S Fraga]

Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> During the last few days I have learned about org-mode and I'm starting to plan how to change my
> current work flow to org-mode. My current work flow is as follows:
>
> * At the beginning of every new day I create a horizontal line and a time stamp.
> * I use mediawiki == headers == for headers and * for bulleted items.

If you are able to consider moving away from this format, org mode has a
really nice date-tree format which is ideal for journal recording.
Top level headings are years, second level are months and third level
are days.  You can enter new entries with just a couple of key presses using
the org-capture feature!

I have something like this for setting this up:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq org-capture-templates 
      '( ("j" "journal" entry (file+datetree "~/git/notes/journal.org")
	  "* %^{Entry} %^G\n%i%?" :immediate-finish t)))
#+end_src

[...]

> So now I am trying to figure out how to map this into org-mode. Here are some observations and
> questions:
>
>   * The horizontal rule is ok in paragraph mode.
>   * The timestamp is ok by doing C-c .
>   * But the "worked line" doesn't work if I try to use "C-c C-x TAB" as it complains "Before first
>     headline". I could turn the row into a header or just insert plain text. Is there a more elegant
>     solution? I don't want to have the "worked" line indexed. Note that the "worked" line is used at
>     the end of the month to summarize the amount of work hours.

You need a heading in which clock info can be entered.  If you use the
date-tree format, you'll automatically have each day within a heading.

>   * Is there any way of separating headers from items? I like the non-symmetry of the "==" syntax
>     for headers and "*" for items, but I guess I can get used to that.

You can use lists for items (lists can start with -, numbers, and
others).

>   * At my previous work place I used the same notebook file for more than 10years(!) of notes, and
>     needless to say it got to be very big (around 100k lines). Can
>     org-mode handle that size files?

I believe so although my files are all under 1MB corresponding to about
10k lines so I'm not the right person to answer this...  However, many
of the operations I do are on several such files simultaneously so I'm
probably approaching 100k lines in total and most operations respond
immediately.  The performance will depend on what you want to do with
this file.

>   * How can I customize the exported HTML? E.g. I don't like the table of contents or the numbering
>     of headers. 

Trivial.  Everything is customisable!

> But alltogether org-mode looks great! I'm looking forward to use it
> both on my desktop and in emacs on my N900.

I used to use org on my N8x0 computers and loved it.

HTH,
eric

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Re: Migrating my current work flow to org-mode

[Samuel Wales]

FYI, an alternative to a date tree is to use sorting in the outline.