'For one thing, you won't be able to do advanced searching for tag/property combinations, gather those properties into a column view or dynamic block (for that you want regular Org properties). Nor easily access them from a spreadsheet or source code elsewhere in the document (for that you want a named table).'
Cheers

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> wrote:

On 5/19/11 8:21 AM, Chris Barber wrote:

Hi, I am planning to record some ideas in org-mode, and I would love
to be able to set it out as follows:

* Ideas
** | Idea | A property | A property |
*** Regular outlined notes
Some notes
*** More sub notes
** | Idea 2 | Property | Property |

Is there any way for me to do this? Essentially it would function like
a table until you tab down into it.
I think this would be FANTASTIC!
Thanks,
Chris

Well, nothing prevents you from dividing up a heading with pipe characters, if you like the way it looks. It doesn't function like a table, but what table functionality is it that you want to use here?

For one thing, you won't be able to do advanced searching for tag/property combinations, gather those properties into a column view or dynamic block (for that you want regular Org properties). Nor easily access them from a spreadsheet or source code elsewhere in the document (for that you want a named table).

I suggest you rather consider tags and regular Org properties.

* Idea � � :A_Property:Another_Property:
* Idea
�:PROPERTIES:
�:A_Property: value
�:Another_Property: value2
�:END:

Yours,
Christian