Hi Bernt, I liked your self-contained approach, and I will try implementing it in my workflow. Org does not stop amazing me on how flexible it is :)
However, the value of having a wiki is also great IMO. It has a workflow similar to tomboy (each new org file acts as a new tomboy note) I don't have to think too much when creating a wiki page (just type TheNameOfTheSubject.org, save it and begin typing, they are in a central location (a wiki folder) and they are a great place to register knowledge data. I don't know, that might be because I used WikiDPad for a long time on my Windows days and loved its approach (Two things that org lacks as a wiki-system, which is a way to view the wiki in a tree format and automatically create links based on files in the filesystem or camelcase. Not big deal features, but something that could be contributed as a org extension - I would do it if I had the elisp knowledge to do so :)) Regards, Marcelo. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> wrote: > Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celose...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Information that has no potential next action associated but that > > still has potential reference value and that you'd like to keep > > around, how and where do you keep it ? > > > > I usually check - if it is related to a project, I put it in this > > project's wiki page (a simple .org ASCII file named after the project > > under ~/org/wiki folder). If it's not, I try to find out if there's a > > wiki page that I could fit it into, if not, I create a new file under > > the wiki folder. > > > > I used to use tomboy, but I'm trying to move/center all my data to my > > org folder. I still use Tomboy for quick notes (collection-phase) > > though, but not for reference. > > > > I then have a simple function that searches (rgrep) through the whole > > ~/org folder, so that whenever I want to check if I have something > > about subject x, I just rgrep my PIM folder. > > > > ;;a little elisp func to rgrep through all my org directory > > (defun org-rgrep (REGEXP1) "Searches through all my org/PIM files" > (interactive "sSearch PIM for: ") > > (rgrep REGEXP1 "*.org" "/home/marcelo/org" )) > > ;;bind the previous function to windows_key + o > > (global-set-key [?\s-o] 'org-rgrep) > > > > Would you mind sharing how you do it? > > Hi Marcelo, > > I keep all my notes in .org files. Some of these are dedicated for > reference documentation only and may be exported to other formats for > consumption by others. A good example of this is my org-mode document > at http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html. > > Reference material that does not end up in a dedicated document lives in > an org file without a TODO keyword and with a tag of NOTE. Where it > resides is solely based on content. > > If it's part of a project task it gets filed under the project > somewhere. This is normally project-related notes that don't make sense > to keep outside the project. If the project is archived using archive > by subtree the notes go with it. > > If it's general information related to an org file I file it under a > level 1 * Notes entry in the appropriate org file. If the org file is > included in my org-agenda-files I can locate the notes easily with an > agenda search. If I drop the file from org-agenda-files then the notes > for that file are also dropped on agenda searches. The notes are > forever available in the .org file. > > Finally as a last resort notes go as a level 2 entry in todo.org under > the level 1 * Notes entry. > > HTH, > Bernt > > >
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