Hello!
I'd like to propose some functionality that I think would be
useful, and
offer a very naive proof-of-concept implementation.
The basic idea is that I'd like to be able to add or change a property
on a tree, and then move the whole tree to a location based on that
property.
To be more concrete, I take lots of notes with remember. They all get
saved to ~/notes.org. Later in the day, I go back and add a
PROJECT or
CATEGORY property to many of these notes. Especially for a tree that
has to do with a project, I'd like to be able to quickly file the note
away in a file dedicated to that project by moving the tree to a
predefined file.
I know that there's a lot of power in the one-file-to-rule-them-all
approach, and that there are lots of ways I could view just the
parts of
the file that have to do with a given project. So if this idea is a
non-starter, that's fine, too. Still there are some contexts where
having multiple files can be a good thing (for example, when using the
org-publish-project-alist).
I've got a very simple implementation of the idea that goes like this:
;; My filing system
(setplist 'project '(research1 "~/research1.org"
grant1 "~/grant1.org"))
(defun aff-org-move-to-project-file ()
"Use value of the PROJECT property to move the subtree at the
point to a predefined file."
(interactive)
(let* ((pom (point))
(file (get 'project (intern (org-entry-get pom
"PROJECT")))))
(org-cut-subtree)
(org-open-file file)
(end-of-buffer)
(org-paste-subtree)))
This is does the basic job, but it'd be neat to see it extended in a
couple of ways:
- Have a single variable that defines mappings for multiple
properties. Something like
;; probably lousy syntax for this, but
;; ("PROP_NAME" ("prop_value" "associated_info"))
(setq org-property-map '(("PROJECTS" ("research" "research.org"
"grants" "grants.org"))
("CATEGORY" (chores "home.org"))))
- Be able to use the syntax for linking to other org files to
specify a
location in the other file to insert the tree
- With a prefix, be prompted for location to insert the tree in the
file, like with remember notes
- When more than one property of a given tree has a destination
defined, prompt for which location to use
- It would also be nice to use these values to build appropriate
archive locations, so that (for example) any DONE item with a value
of "research" for the "PROJECT" category would be archived at the
bottom of the research.org file rather than the default
org-archive-location.
This whole proposal is basically just a generalization of
org-archive-subtree and org-archive-location to allow movement and
archiving based on properties other than just ARCHIVE. Hopefully this
means most of the required functionality is already in place.
I know that for my workflow this would be very useful. Would other
folks also like to have this functionality?
Thanks,
/au
--
Austin Frank
http://aufrank.net
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