From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: M Subject: Re: How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:40:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87a9s0apj1.fsf@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42444) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Txla5-0006hw-SN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:40:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Txla4-0007nm-Jm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:40:33 -0500 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:63522) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Txla4-0007ng-9z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:40:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87a9s0apj1.fsf@googlemail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Thorsten Jolitz , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Thanks Thorsten for your reply! it is not about programming and it is not about plain text files, but MS Office (Word) files.. Dropbox is not an option, maybe a document management system (DMS) with versioning, but it is not in place yet. And even if there is, how could I then track my workflow with Emacs? Kind regards Martin > Von: Thorsten Jolitz > Datum: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:14:42 +0100 > An: > Betreff: Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing > their status/ person > > M writes: > > Hi, > >> At the moment there are many little projects where I >> >> * get a text from someone (or write it myself) >> * have to read and edit it >> * send it oer email to 1 or 2 other colleagues which have to read / edit it >> * get it back and check the changes >> * maybe send the text again to the original author >> * then finally release the text for publication >> >> ... and you imagine, there is not only 1 such text at once but several of >> them. >> >> I wonder what is an approriate way to keep track of such workflows with >> org-mode.. > > this doesn't sound so different from several programmers working on the > same source code file, so I suspect that GIT is the best and the most > popular solution for collaborative work on plain text files. > > If you/your fellow workers don't use GIT or another VCS, there is still > dropbox - put your project text files in your dropbox folder and share > them with other, there are automatic backups of older versions by > Dropbox. > > Or you wait for colorg to be released, that would probably fit your > needs exactly > > -- > cheers, > Thorsten > >