Re: Document management system with Org?
Thank you. This was very useful. Seems like attachments will work for me. Also seems like I can use org capture templates to record metadata for different types of documents. Now I need to dig in to the Org manual...
Document management system with Org?
Org newbie here. Org advertizes itself as a note management and organizer system. How suitable is it to manage documents? Documents are files, usually in pdf format, stored as blobs on file system. I need to attach some meta data to them. Like tags, for example, 'invoice' or 'contract' or some random notes. I would also like to have a way to categorize a group of documents by some criteria, e.g. by the name of a contractor. It would be good to have a dired-like interface to browse documents and manipulate them: view/copy/delete/attach to email etc. What approach could I use for this? Is there anything like that in Org ecosystem? Thanks.
Re: Org and Hyperbole
Hi Robert, Robert Weiner writes: > Oantolin no doubt can speak to Embark much better but my present > understanding is that it is a toolkit package for generating contextual > popup or completion menus with a few standard context menus included. > > Hyperbole is a much broader personal information management > environment, one part of which is to turn every common type of > cross-reference found in buffers from programming identifiers to > page links into immediately useable hyperlinks with no effort > or markup on your part (implicit buttons). I struggle to understand the core difference between Embark and Hyperbole. In terms of Embark, the context around point is called /target/. So if the target is a filename, then the default action is to visit the file. If the default action is not what you want, then Embark can present you with a context menu - you can choose amongst the actions that can be executed on the file, like deleting it or locating it in a dired buffer. In terms of Hyperbole, the contextual information is called /implicit button/. Pressing M-RET on it sounds very much the same as executing the default action in terms of Embark. Embark defines the following targets: file, symbol, URL, s-expression, defun, etc. It seems it is conceptually the same as implicit buttons in Hyperbole. Is this correct?
Converting document from hard whitespace indentation to org-indent-mode
Several of my documents use indentation to line up with the headings, like below: * Top level headline paragraph + list item lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ** Second level some text *** Third level more text I would like to strip leading whitespace, so that I could switch to =org-indent-mode= to have a nice view of the document instead of using hard whitespace indentation. Basically I want to: - strip leading whitespace, - but preserve the indentation of lists and src blocks - refill all paragraphs according to what =org-fill-paragragh= would do. How would I do it programmatically? My current Elisp knowledge is poor. Thanks in advance.
