Hi Jay, Jay Dixit <di...@aya.yale.edu> wrote: [...] > 2. What's the best way to do this? Should I add all of my chapter.org files > to the agenda using org-agenda-file-to-front? I ask because these are not > TODO headings, just headings with notes and quotes, so I'm not sure if > using org-agenda functionality is appropriate. > 3. I am also learning to use org-agenda, so I do have a work.org file that > has my TODO tasks in it. Is there a way to temporarily remove my > work.orgTODO headings from the refile targets for when I'm sorting my > book notes?
Here are a couple other approaches you can consider. As mentioned in other responses, the best way depends on your preference for structuring your Org files. I prefer to keep project-specific files separate from my general agenda files. If I capture something in my agenda files that I want to refile to a non-agenda file, I use a few functions [1] for temporarily setting `org-refile-targets'. If you are repeatedly refiling to certain targets (but still want to keep them separate from you're global refiling targets), you can define a function that overrides `org-refile-targets' and then bind it to a key. Another solution, if you are only refiling between files within your book chapter directory, is to use a .dir-locals.el file in your book directory and set `org-refile-targets' there. ((org-mode . ((org-refile-targets . (... project settings ...))))) [1] https://github.com/kyleam/emacs.d/blob/b15ba9f8250c433b621da023f7607cbf29c25581/lisp/init-org.el#L221-L254 -- Kyle