Hi Richard, Richard Riley <rileyrg...@googlemail.com> writes:
> Two major issues for me to get my head around. > > 1) Tags v Categories. Its not entirely obvious to me what categories are > for. Are they like a more specialised tag? Categories are primarily for visibility in the agenda. I use them to remind myself what project or "area of responsibility" an item belongs to. If I label a particular project with the category "article", I can easily identify tasks belonging to that project. E.g., tasks from the following project... ,---- | * PROJECT Write article :PROJECT: | :PROPERTIES: | :CATEGORY: article | :END: | ** TODO Do some online research :computer: | SCHEDULED: <2010-01-13 Wed> | ** TODO Outline article :rwb: | SCHEDULED: <2010-01-13 Wed> `---- ...appear as follows in the agenda: ,---- | Day-agenda (W02): | Wednesday 13 January 2010 | article: Scheduled: TODO Do some online research :computer: | article: Scheduled: TODO Outline article :rwb: `---- Thanks to the category, I can see what project the otherwise cryptic "Do some online research" belongs to. > 2) Refiling. Lets says I have something like this in linux.org:- > > * general :general: > #+CATEGORY: general > ** learn org mode :emacs:org: > blah blah > * debian :debian: > #+CATEGORY: debian > * test This syntax for categories has been deprecated. Better to use properties, as in the example above. > > if I refile from elsewhere, it picks ALL items at a level to refile to when I > select > linux.org. > > e.g linux.org/general, linux.org/debian, linux.org/test > > If I then select "general" it also prompts for me now to select "learn > org mode". Is this because of some hangover from me using org-mode? In > other words I cant refile to linux.org/debian. Refile completion follows the hierarchy of your outline. Thus, once you have limited the results to linux.org/general, org-refile will only offer you subtrees belonging to "general." If you want more flexible completion, you can fiddle around with the variables org-refile-use-outline-path, org-completion-use-ido, and org-outline-path-complete-in-steps. Best, Matt _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode