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

[Grant Rosson]

I wasn't using any of the programmer-specific functions of 
'project.el' or 'projectile,'
so as a test I switched to using karthink's 'consult-dir' (avail 
on Melpa) to quickly
access my project directories, which I have bookmarked with the built-in 
bookmark.el.

In this case, a "project" is simply folder containing documents 
pertaining to any
articles I'm writing or classes I'm teaching currently. When I 
finish an article or a class
I simply remove the bookmark and it ceases to show up when I call 
'consult-dir.'

It's nothing fancy, but it's quicker than 'find-file,' and so far I haven't missed any 
of the
functionality offered by project or projectile. My thinking was: 
pare down my config,
and then build back up if I found anything missing. So far, I 
haven't felt the need.

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