Re: property searches for #+CATEGORY

[Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:23:12PM +0100, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
> On 07/11/2007, Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> wrote:
> > I have several personal .org files, and several work-related ones too.
> > In each personal file, I have a line:
> >
> >   #+CATEGORY: personal
> >
> > and in each work-related file, I have a line:
> >
> >   #+CATEGORY: work
> >
> > I would like to be able to bind agenda custom commands to do tag
> > searches which are narrowed to one of these categories, e.g. "show me
> > all personal priority #A tasks".  Such a search needs to span *all*
> > agenda files, therefore the standard per-buffer narrowing provided by
> > the '<' binding in the *Agenda Commands* buffer is insufficient.
> >
> > Would it make sense to include CATEGORY as a special property?  After
> > all, pretty much all other per-task meta-data ("TODO", "PRIORITY"
> > etc.) are already available via the property interface, and this way,
> > I could easily achieve what I need with tag searches such as
> >
> >   CATEGORY="personal"+PRIORITY="A"
> >
> > Thanks!
> 
> It would seem to me that this is exactly what tags does.
> You could move everything down a level and use tag inheritance:
> * personal stuff :personal:
> * work stuff :work:

I could, but this would mean that each file would have a single
top-level entry, and the entire contents would be indented an extra
level, which I fear is a rather unattractive solution!