Is there any orgmode ChangeLog workalike (with enhancements)?

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2089 bytes --]

[I posted almost this exact message to emacs-help by mistake.]

Many times I have envisioned having an org-mode function that works
similarly to ChangeLog, to save notes as something like a 00_README.org
file in-place, in any directory in which I am working.   Maybe my
imagination has just escaped me, and something either already exists or is
so trivial as to have escaped my notice.

I almost laughed when I saw a ChangeLog exists for the latest org release,
but then thought that ChangeLog is so perfect and ubiquitous as it should
not be replaced.

However, for my  plethora of little projects, scattered all over my home
directory tree, it would be excellent to have a capture template to do this
sort of thing, and store to any existing such file in the current
directory, and be picked up readily by some simple keystroke.   As an
example, I might be working on a graph of today's tides, in a new folder,
and work away, and when all is said and done, make a note and add it to the
00_README.org file.  These would be convenient to find without digging
through a lot of cruft  (and I have a lot of cruft).

It seems ChangeLog may sometimes save to a directory a the head of a tree
of directories, though I'm not sure.  Perhaps an option would enable this
to be done for a limited number of levels.

Certainly  something like this must have been implemented.  I think the
main trick might be to use the current directory, and use many files with
the same filename scattered around all over the place.

I turn to the list out of a sense that I have already wasted enough time on
trying to search for something of this nature.

Thank you,

Alan Davis
--
[Fill in the blanks]

The use of corrupt manipulations and blatant rhetorical ploys ...---
outright lying, flagwaving, personal attacks, setting up phony
alternatives, misdirection, jargon-mongering, evading key issues, feigning
disinterested objectivity, willful misunderstanding of other points of
view---suggests that ... lacks both credibility and evidence.

             ---- Edward Tufte (in context of making presentations)

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2841 bytes --]