[Orgmode] Re: refiling

[Richard Riley]

Manish <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Richard Riley wrote:
>>
>> I'm a bit rusty so please excuse any stupid questions.
>>
>> I decided to clear up my org files which are, frankly, a mess.
>>
>> Two major issues for me to get my head around.
>>
>> 1) Tags v Categories. Its not entirely obvious to me what categories are
>> for. Are they like a more specialised tag?
>
> To me they are a means to provide some more context only.  But I do
> not use them at all - I hide them using the excellent
> my-org-agenda-toggle-list-category function courtesy Manuel
> Hermengildo (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/10909).
>
>>

Useful , but the comments seem to be misleading in that the file names
are not shown regardless of toggle state. Or is file name used as a more
general category when no specific category is put it?

Which is another cloudy issue for me - file name and category.

e.g I have a file "linux.org". In it I have a category "General". But in
the agenda this is not specific enough e,g I will see another General
item from "Emacs" category "General". possibly all down to reformatting
the output. I'm not sure I am clear about what categories are.