Re: Culling org files (notion of Types, many small vs few big files)

2021-03-05 Thread Samuel Wales
i should maybe point out that my focus in op is merely, literally something like "possibilities for code for helping the user archive or delete stuff in existing bloated org files". but i am also ok with tangents like other ideas for speed and less clutter and organizational tricks and so on. thi

Re: Culling org files (notion of Types, many small vs few big files)

2021-03-05 Thread Samuel Wales
the closest thing i have to types is merely this - some files go in org-agenda-files, by basename pattern - some to text search extra files, pattern, don't need the tses - some to neither, no pattern [blog.org] - some get put manually in refile targets which has no real connection to either ontol

Re: Culling org files (notion of Types, many small vs few big files)

2021-03-05 Thread Tim Cross
TRS-80 writes: > On 2021-03-04 16:11, Samuel Wales wrote: > I have some other custom agenda functions as well, for things like > periodic reviews (in the GTD sense) and others. Org's Agenda really > is essentially just like a database query engine when you get right > down to it (except storin

Re: Culling org files (notion of Types, many small vs few big files)

2021-03-05 Thread TRS-80
On 2021-03-04 16:11, Samuel Wales wrote: tim> naming convention ... to determine what is included this is also what i do. org-agenda-files is just set at startup according to basename pattern. I find it very interesting that all three of us seem to have independently arrived at some of same

Re: Culling org files

2021-03-04 Thread Samuel Wales
trs> [smaller files] My agenda is not cluttered. it is not clear to me why more smaller files and shallower trees in the outline would improve the agenda. sounds good though. tim> naming convention ... to determine what is included this is also what i do. org-agenda-files is just set at startu

Re: Culling org files

2021-03-04 Thread Tim Cross
TRS-80 writes: > On 2021-03-03 16:59, Samuel Wales wrote: > I have come to similar conclusion about "don't let org files get too > big." Besides agenda speed, I think it is just easier to > conceptualize things when each file covers only a limited scope, trees > are more shallow, etc. > > So,

Re: Culling org files

2021-03-04 Thread TRS-80
On 2021-03-03 16:59, Samuel Wales wrote: along lines of reducing logbook entries I guess you must have picked up on my comment in another recent thread. :) i often want to reduce org files, and i wonder if anybody already had the same desire. here are some random ideas. my org files are so

Culling org files

2021-03-03 Thread Samuel Wales
along lines of reducing logbook entries, i often want to reduce org files, and i wonder if anybody already had the same desire. here are some random ideas. my org files are so large i might have written this list a few times 1) list links to duplicate headlines 2) list links to duplicate