Hello list,<br><br>I would like to share how I&#39;m keeping my reference data. This includes articles I write, blog post drafts, braintorms and anything else that we could fit in the reference category (gtd-wide).<br><br>
I don&#39;t like categories too much. Actually, I find them too strict and limited. Putting things into folders just makes you loose ]time thinking about structure. I&#39;m adept of tags, though. I love them. So, my basic idea was to have a folder (which I right now call wiki/) with a compendium of all my reference data. <br>
<br>Whenever I need to create a new entry, I press s-r and it triggers dired with this directory as context. So, I can just type something .org and press &lt;enter&gt; to create it. Then, at the bottom, I create a * tags item. I tag it with relevant tags and save. *I don&#39;t add it to the agenda list* -- I have a custom rgrep function to seach over wiki/, which is binded to s-o. When I want to find something from my reference data, I just press s-o and type a string, and rgrep does the rest.<br>
<br>It&#39;s pretty simple, and, as you could note, doesn&#39;t use much of org&#39;s functionalities. Using agenda would be overkill, as I have dozens of files in the directory, and it would be probably overkill for org-agenda.<br>
<br>Anyways, just thought I&#39;d share. It works great, is very organic, flexible and simple. The goal was to have a simple storage system which was easy to search and that wouldn&#39;t get on my way, but be easy to access/use when I needed it.<br>
<br>As a knowledge worker, I find that it works quite well to quickly brainstorm, draft blog posts or anything else that I want to keep as reference.<br><br>How do you manage reference information? It&#39;d be nice to know :)<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>Marcelo.<br><br><br><br><br><br>