C-c [ and C-c ] adds and removes the current file from the agenda list. I can never remember these, so I leave the menus turned on in emacs (makes me a wimp!).
BUT: do you really need to do this? It is the way I used to work, but my current book is 600+ pages and I am keeping it and all my research in a single file. By using the 'hoist' C-x n s for a subtree, writing is focussed and yet everything is where I need it.
Maybe it won't work for you but I find it very convenient.
Cheers,
Alan
On 28/04/14 08:25, Jay Dixit wrote:
Hello friendly org-mode community,
I'm using org-mode to research and write a nonfiction book. I have a large amount of notes and quotes that I now need to sort into separate files.
I am creating separate org files, one for each chapter of my book—chapter-1.org, chapter-2.org, etc.—with org headings in each one for every topic/subsection.
I now want to categorize my notes, moving them from where they are—i.e. in a set of long, unorganized org files with names like new-research.org and more-research-and-notes.org—into the the chapter files.
1. Am I right in thinking that org-refile is the most efficient way to do this?2. What's the best way to do this? Should I add all of my chapter.org files to the agenda using org-agenda-file-to-front? I ask because these are not TODO headings, just headings with notes and quotes, so I'm not sure if using org-agenda functionality is appropriate.3. I am also learning to use org-agenda, so I do have a work.org file that has my TODO tasks in it. Is there a way to temporarily remove my work.org TODO headings from the refile targets for when I'm sorting my book notes? Or is there a way to have different "projects" with separate sets of refile targets, one set of agenda files with refile targets for when I'm refiling TODO tasks, another set of agenda files for when I'm refiling book notes?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Best,Jayᐧ
-- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:address@hidden