From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: records-mode ? Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:52:54 +0100 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <200802190752.m1J7qsdN012460@localhost.localdomain> References: <200802190200.m1J202tc009788@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203422929 28979 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2008 12:08:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:08:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: William Xu Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 19 13:09:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JRRHS-0003tr-In for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:09:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRRGx-00031T-Pe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:08:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRRGe-000318-7Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:08:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRRGc-00030o-Po for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:08:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRRGc-00030l-K4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:08:10 -0500 Original-Received: from master.uucpssh.org ([193.218.105.66]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRRGc-0002xY-3F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:08:10 -0500 Original-Received: by master.uucpssh.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id 3A5EFBB4B0; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:07:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1000@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1J7qtbr012463; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:52:55 +0100 Original-Received: (from xma@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.14.1/8.13.8/Submit) id m1J7qsdN012460; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:52:54 +0100 In-reply-to: (message from William Xu on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:50:09 +0900) User-Agent: Rmail in GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 on GNU/Linux Jabber-ID: xma01@jabber.fr X-uucpssh: Found to be clean X-uucpssh-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.334, required 4.6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.07, BAYES_00 -2.60, SPF_HELO_PASS -0.00) X-uucpssh-From: xma@gnu.org X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51677 Archived-At: Xavier Maillard writes: > After having tried Org Mode, Muse, Howm (a little) they are > really good package but too feature full and none offer a good > indexing system to retrieve informations quickly and easily > (except by adding links here and there). How does `outline-mode' feel? I use it for keeping various notes. Does it have something like an index of notes to quickly know where to retrieve a note/information ? This is a major requirement for me. In records-mode, pressing C-c C-j, I have an index buffer which shows a list of keywords and the respective notes entries (There is something close to this in notes-mode). The big no-no about records-mode and notes-mode currently is that they seem "dead" and unmaintained. As Bastien said, maybe I am misusing Org. Maybe Org is really what I want but concentrating only on the note taking aspect and not using planning/todo handling. As far as I remember, org-mode and remember has turned out very good combination by the past _but_, I always feel lost when it comes to =AB=A0searching=A0=BB informations -ie. I do not like the search process. What I need, if I go back to Org, is a setup like this: #1. One note page per day classified ala notes-mode (and I also want to have the possibility to have notes not related to dates -ie. independant notes (by, say, subject) #2. An index of all my note entries (with quick search on keywords, tags, etc.) #3. I want to be able to narrow on a note entry (this is easy in every mode I have tried) #4. navigation facilities to previous/next day (as is done by records-mode and notes-mode). This is an important point for my job position. Free form notes taking is, off course, a _must have_ for me. Regards, Xavier --=20 http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org