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Re: [O] Narrow to sparse tree
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Christopher Witte |
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Re: [O] Narrow to sparse tree |
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Thu, 6 Sep 2012 17:02:06 +0200 |
That's great, it gets me part of the way there. I also keep notes for
each reference under their heading and I'd like to be able to see/edit
them as well. Is there a way to do this in an agenda buffer?
On 6 September 2012 16:44, François Allisson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Le jeudi 06 sep 2012 à 15:46:42 (+0200), Christopher Witte a écrit :
>> I keep a bibliography in an org file using the excellent org-bibtex
>> functionality. It has over 100 entries with a first level heading for
>> each item. I tag each of the items with keywords/topics. Using
>> sparse trees I can quickly find and navigate to items matching a
>> particular tag, but if only 4 items out of the 100 have that tag the
>> "signal to noise" is pretty bad. What I would like to do is narrow
>> the buffer to just those entries that match the tag. I've looked in
>> the manual but I couldn't find a way to do this. Can this be done
>> with org?
>>
>> Thanks for the help,
>> Chris.
>>
>> ps. using M-g n or M-g M-n (next-error) with sparse trees I expected
>> it to wrap when you reach the end of the file but sadly this is not
>> the case. Is there a reason for this?
>>
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Have you think of using the agenda views? In four keystrokes, you're
> there with the best signal to noise ratio:
>
> - `C-c a' (or M-x org-agenda)
> - `<' (to restrict the agenda view to the current buffer)
> - `m' (for tags, property and todo keywords)
> - `abc' (for tag :abc:), or (`YEAR'=2010 for PROPERTY :YEAR: equal
> to 2010, etc).
>
> HTH,
>
> François.
>
> PS: +1 for the excellent org-bibtex functionality !