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From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>
Cc: "Sébastien Gendre" <seb@k-7.ch>, "William Denton" <wtd@pobox.com>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tips on using Org-mode to manage a reading list
Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 21:50:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8vC4t1Bu21mC7BdUdN_drdibgraHME5am5bKVc1rfmQ8w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1126646.1652760874@apollo2.minshall.org>

just a brainstorm but is it possible already or in principle for c-c '
to serialize property values and also newline-ize table cells?

On 5/16/22, Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> wrote:
> hi, Sébastien,
>
>> I got to many books and articles for a table...
>
> hmm.  why too many?  each column would be an attribute (title, author,
> score, publisher, ...), or a status (unread, finished, ...) and each row
> would be a book.  that should scale.
>
> the downside of a table (though that is almost certainly what i would
> have suggested) is the "notes", i.e., the freeform text that would
> follow the property table in a node in your scheme.  there's not a
> "naive" way to do that.
>
> cheers, Greg
>
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-17  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-16 21:22 Tips on using Org-mode to manage a reading list Sébastien Gendre
2022-05-16 23:28 ` William Denton
2022-05-17  0:08   ` Sébastien Gendre
2022-05-17  4:14     ` Greg Minshall
2022-05-17  4:50       ` Samuel Wales [this message]
2022-05-17  0:42   ` William Denton
2022-05-18 12:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-05-29 14:47 ` Christian Heinrich
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-05-16 21:18 Sébastien Gendre

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