From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I must be missing something...
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:02:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbypo68p.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2fxe9ikxy.fsf@boostpro.com> (David Abrahams's message of "Tue\, 09 Jun 2009 09\:41\:13 -0400")
David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
Hi David!
> I've been using and studying org mode for a few months now, and though
> it seems to have great potential, some things still escape me. For
> example, do my DONE items simply accumulate forever in todo.org? I know
> there's an archiving feature... do I move those done items manually to
> an archive when I no longer need to see them?
Stuff accumulates and I personally archive subtrees manually once/month.
> >
> Also, how do I manage my projects? Org mode seems to "want" to put
> everything in one big file. I know I *can* separate trees by file, but
> it doesn't seem to be very convenient to do so. For example, if I'm
> visiting a project file, is there a way to get an agenda view on just
> /that/ file without having to modify org-agenda-files?
I recently wrote about this here.
http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#LimitingAgendaView
Maybe that will help?
>
> I know I'm being a bit vague, but so far the basic operations of
> org-mode, which were very fast to use at first, haven't "scaled up" very
> easily to handle my whole life, and I'm not sure how to get there.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any advice you can give,
I've been using org-mode for years and I use it for everything. A
description of my work flow and setup for org-mode is at
http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html in case that's useful.
HTH,
-Bernt
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2009-06-09 13:41 I must be missing something David Abrahams
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