From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Sebold Subject: Re: Org-mode idea? Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:22:32 -0600 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KySER-0003K0-3V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:22:39 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KySEQ-0003JZ-8P for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:22:38 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56298 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KySEQ-0003JU-2l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:22:38 -0500 Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.92.150]:51918) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KySEP-0004Mh-II for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:22:37 -0500 Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so715100qwk.24 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:22:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Dennis Groves's message of "Thu\, 6 Nov 2008 14\:21\:37 +0000") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 6 Nov 2008, Dennis Groves wrote: > I recently suffered a loss of data on my main computer. And as such I > really want to get my data into a git repository and have that backed > up regularly. > > (but I have been in management now for so long my developer tech > skills have really suffered - and this stuff isn't as obvious as it > once was...) I did this. There are a lot of places you could start on something like this; I think John Wiegley's PDF on how to use Git was mentioned yesterday, and that was pretty good. The great thing about Git is that you can either treat this like traditional source control, and set up a central repository somewhere that gets backed up, or you can just clone the one you maintain on your main computer to your server that gets backed up sometimes. In either place you have the complete history of your changes. For myself, I have a primary system that is live on the internet, so I can get my files from anywhere (with SSH, anyway). Then my main place to actually use the org files is on my laptop running Windows, and I do most things there and regularly push commits in just so I have the backup. Then I have my main computer at home, a Debian system, and when I'm at home that's often the place where I "live" with my org files. Git handles this stuff pretty straightforwardly. If I were to do it over again, though, I might not bother with the central one, assuming that I was getting regular backups with one of the other two "main" computers. > Now my idea is this could agenda be made to read the subdirectories > recursively and scan the files there in for todo's? Sorta, like a > compile? Or could I have a single file that is simply a list of all > the files to look into in order to create my agenda? For this you want to look at (info "(org)Agenda files") for everything you need. You can certainly do the second one out of the box. I have it reading everything in the top level of my org directory, then I manually add things in the subdirectories, because sometimes I'm messing with something that I don't want in the ordinary agenda. You can manually add a file that you're in right now with "C-c [" as you can see from the info link above. Then you could get really crazy and start having multiple agendas... like a lot of people on here seem to be doing (and I just started, and I am hooked on it). -- Charles Sebold 7th of November, 2008 GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) | Gnus v5.11 | org-mode 6.11pre01