I am looking for something a little different than this: annotated ls
listings.  I have been searching blindly for years for this.

Back in the 90s was a Dos clone called 4dos, which featured directory
listings with annotations, such that typing whatever the command was
(dir?), gave a listing with the file name just like "dir" but also a
description of the file.

It was exceedingly useful for me, in keeping track of a large number of
files.  I have never seen anything like it.

Could org-annotate fulfill at least part of this requirement?  (I have
posted to this list a similar question quite some years ago.)

Alan Davis

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
wrote:

> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Does anyone use org-annotate actively? I'm wondering what your
> > workflow is, how you incorporate comments, etc.
>
> I wrote it, and I don't use it that much. I do use it for quick
> notes-to-self when writing, but footnotes do the job just as well.
>
> > I'm hoping to embark on a book project with a colleague. I would like
> > to use org-mode if I can, but I need to get a sense of the
> > collaboration workflow. When you work on projects together, do you use
> > annotations? Or git pull requests? If the latter, od you use any
> > filters, or any magit tricks, to approve or modify suggested changes
> > chunk by chunk?
>
> It's a huge problem, and one that org-annotate isn't going to solve. I
> do a lot of manuscript editing, and passing files around, and have only
> barely gotten some people to accept my "weird" workflow, which is to
> send them a clean version of an edited file, and along with that an HTML
> file containing htmlized word-diff output, where the insertions and
> deletions are colorized. They make further edits on the clean copy, and
> I do another go-around. It's a huge pain.
>
> > My colleague is familiar with markdown but for major projects has only
> > ever used word. I'm trying to figure out how best to help her move to
> > a text--based mode of production; the markdown ecosystem seems a lot
> > larger, and I don't want the transition to be too painful. But OTOH I
> > really want to stay in org if I can!
>
> I wish there were better solutions out there!
>
> Eric
>
>
>


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