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From: "Paul M. Rodriguez" <paulmrodriguez@gmail.com>
Subject: org-velocity --- something like Notational Velocity for Org
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:25:04 -0500
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There exists a notetaking program for OSX called Notational Velocity (http://notational.net/) with an ingeniously simple interface.  (I say "there exists" since I've never actually used it.)  When you enter a search phrase, the program lists all notes where the phrase occurs; if there are no matching notes, then the search phrase is used as the title of a new note.

When I read about this I thought it would be straightforward to create a similar interface for Emacs, storing the notes in Org format.  Each note is simply a heading in a file.  The mode line is used to read a search, a display buffer shows the results, and (optionally) org-remember is used to record new notes.  You can use the interface to maintain a single "bucket" file, or to navigate any Org file.

The package is available at http://gopher.ruricolist.com/lisp/org-velocity.el.

It works for me but of course any feedback or suggestions would be
welcome.

Paul Rodriguez