Re: [emacs-humanities] Emacs "Projects" management?

[Andrea]

Hi Alan,

If you use Git already, then projectile functionality comes for free.
You may already know: Git is a version control system, so it helps you
keep track of changes you did in the past. Once you version control some
files, projectile focuses only on those because considers a Git
directory a "project".

I am a programmer and I reuse Git for my writings to keep sure I can go
back to previous versions in case I mess up things.

Best,

Andrea

On Mon 04 Oct 2021 at 18:24, Alan Davis <alan3davis@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am using Emacs for almost everything, as I have done for decades.  I use
> Org-Mode, though I do not take advantage of too many bells and whistles.
> Various tools offer to help organize "Projects;" but here's the problem for
> me: they seem to cater to the programmer, for programming projects.
>
> The very word "Project" is fuzzy, imprecise in usage: I have seen it used
> in the sense of a writing project, or without boundaries; yet in the
> tutorials and guides for, for example, "projectile" project manager
> package, it seems to focus on programming projects.
>
> I would like to ask about how others, in the "emacs-humanities" community,
> use such project managers for various kinds of projects (in the loose
> sense), and whether such as "projectile" have been useful, and what
> modifications were useful.
>
> I am not a programmer, and my attention span is declining.  I do not wish
> to embark on a large scale "project" of coding and configuring in elisp to
> get somewhere with this.
>
> Thank you for any thoughts about this,
>
> Alan Davis