Re: advice on ways to quicken refiling..perhaps a hotkey to refile to specific org file/header?

[Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com>]

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I can post the code on github if anyone's interested in the details.

yes please :)


thx!

Z

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thx Oleh
> >  you said you dont refile much latley, is there a better solution ;-)
>
>
> There is, actually.
> It's quite simple: capture all the tasks into the proper place right away,
> instead of dumping them into one place and sorting out later.
>
> Firstly, there's capturing into project.
> A project is just a heading at gtd.org/Projects/project-name.
> Once a task is in a project, there's rarely any need to refile it.
> I tag each task with the project tag anyway, just in case.
> The project setup is a list entry like this:
>
>     '("TINY" "y" "tiny.el")
>
> That's the tag, key binding and heading name. I push this data into
> `org-capture-templates`.
> Now I can capture into project gtd.org/Projects/tiny.el with "C-- y".
>
> Secondly, there's a special capture for pdf files, I've posted it on
> the list before.
>
> Thirdly, there are captures from `org-protocol`. I have this setup:
>
>     (setq org-protocol-default-template-key "l")
>     (push '("l" "Link" entry (function org-handle-link)
>             "* TODO %(org-wash-link)\nAdded: %U\n%(org-link-hooks)\n%?")
>           org-capture-templates)
>
> `org-handle-link` will distinguish:
>
> 1. Links for StackOverflow questions, putting them in wiki/
stack.org/Questions.
> 2. Links to YouTube, downloading the video with `youtube-dl` and
including both
>    the link to the original and the downloaded videos in the captured
item.
>    I highly recommend `youtube-dl`: watching videos in vlc compared to
firefox
>    is like editing in Emacs compared to gedit:)
> 3. All the rest will be dumped into ent.org/Articles.
>
> `org-wash-link` currently just strips the unnecessary " - Stack
> Overflow" from the link description, since the task is already in
> wiki/stack.org/Questions. It's possible to add other rules per website
> of course.
>
> Hopefully some of the described tricks are useful.
> I can post the code on github if anyone's interested in the details.
>
> regards,
> Oleh

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