Re: [Orgmode] org files and directory hierarchies

[Matthew Lundin]

Hi Dan,

Dan Davison <address@hidden> writes:

>
> So is there any future in thinking about an org extension that would
> automatically maintain a directory hierarchy, mirroring the hierarchy
> of headings in certain org files?
>
> But if the structure of org is truly reflecting the structure of my
> life / thoughts, then wouldn't it make sense for the structure of my
> directories to be doing that too? If so, then the job of maintaining
> the correspondence between org and the directory hierarchy should be
> left to the computer.

Good news. Something like this already exists: 

http://orgmode.org/manual/Attachments.html#Attachments

> This would give rise to an org which is a text-based "map" of ones
> working directories, with org files providing semantics and metadata
> to the directory hierarchy and its files. The directory hierarchy
> could be edited by org's structure editing commands. Etc.

One caveat. Org attach doesn't work in quite this way. The data
directory hierarchy isn't really human readable (i.e., it doesn't
mirror the org outline hierarchy). But that would be a nightmare to
make work, I imagine, because of constant changes to the org outline
structure. Rather, directories containing files are attached to
outline headings via automatically generated IDs.

- Matt