Re: Re: How you ORGanize yourself? (aka: Why not one file to rule'em all?)

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Apr 17, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Matt Lundin wrote:

> Hi Marcelo,
>
> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> 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


Hi Matt,

this is very interesting!

One idea:  Instead of setting the value of org-agenda-files,
you can also restrict in the following way:

(org-agenda-remove-restriction-lock)
(put 'org-agenda-files 'org-restrict my-file-list)
(setq org-agenda-overriding-restriction 'files)

The restriction sticks until you remove it with `C-c C_x >'

I am not sure this will work better for your case - but maybe it will.

- Carsten