From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: How you ORGanize yourself? (aka: Why not one file to rule'em all?) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:54:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87k4s6ur0i.fsf@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O3F2G-0007pt-Hd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:54:40 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60104 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O3F2F-0007pl-1b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:54:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3F2D-0002hl-8I for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:54:38 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f214.google.com ([209.85.219.214]:36386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3F2D-0002hd-3I for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:54:37 -0400 Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so1150687ewy.32 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:54:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87k4s6ur0i.fsf@fastmail.fm> 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: Matt Lundin Cc: Org Mode On Apr 17, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Matt Lundin wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > > Marcelo de Moraes Serpa 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