Re: Create sub-directories and files from within org

[Skip Collins <skip.collins@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:58 PM, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> I don't understand what you are trying to do here. you could write a lisp
> function that you run in the ** project name heading that creates a directory
> by that name. But what would the txt files in that directory be?

I requested something like this functionality some time ago but never
found an answer. I create new projects in projects.org, via capture or
direct editing. Each project is a top-level heading that may sometimes
contain sub-headings, todos, etc. Most often it remains a simple
top-level heading containing a drawer but no body or subheadings. It
takes one of the following states: PROJ, DONE, CANCELED, or DORMANT. I
have several agenda views that track active projects (i.e. not done,
not canceled, and not dormant), and other tag attributes (personal,
professional, ...). I use a set of optional tags to track where
project data is kept: :org:, :computer:, :email:, :file:, :binder:,
etc. Many projects have the :computer: tag and a corresponding folder
on my hard drive with various file types stored there including txt,
docx, org, pdf, jpeg, etc. I would very much like a way to quickly
create that folder with the unique project name that I assign in the
top-level heading. It would be super nice if this automagic folder
creation feature also creates a link to the folder inside my
projects.org file.