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Subject: Re: org-mode for knowledge management
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 14:18:28 -1000
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Aloha Louis,

Louis <lbmlist@hethcote.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been using org-mode for a variety of purposes for a few years. I
> find that it suffers from the same problem that other such tools
> do. The problem is me. I can't remember week to week how I may have
> classified some scrap of information. Did I drop it into
> notes/someproduct.org or was it procedures/someprocess.org?
>
> While working through this, I've used #+INDEX: Topic!subtopic which
> helps but is not sufficiently granular.
>
> I'm thinking about approaches using properties or drawers. Has any of
> you done something like this, or done something similar that I've not
> considered?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Your rapidly graying, Louis

Perhaps org-index in contrib would help?  

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-index.html

hth,
Tom

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