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Questions about splitting a tree into multiple files
From: |
Sébastien Gendre |
Subject: |
Questions about splitting a tree into multiple files |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 09:48:19 +0100 |
User-agent: |
mu4e 1.10.5; emacs 29.2 |
Hello,
I have some questions about splitting an Org-mode tree of headings into
multiple files.
Lets take an example: I want to track books I have read and take notes
about each book.
Each book have a title, a status, some properties and notes. The properties are:
* Author
* Editor
* Year
At first, I create one Org file where each book is a heading of level 1.
The title of the heading is the title of the book, the status is a TODO
keyword, the properties use Org-mode properties feature. And the notes
are simply headings of level 2, where the title of these headings
correspond to the chapter of the book.
Now, after adding a lot of books and notes, the file is too big. I want
to split it into multiple files: Each file is a book.
But with this, I have multiple problems:
A file doesn't have a status. If I want to assign a status, I have to
create a heading of level 1 representing the book. But in this case,
when I export the file to PDF or HTML, the result doesn't have a title.
And instead of having each notes as a level 1 section, I have 1 section
of level 1, representing the book, and all the rest are sections of level
2.
A file can have properties, but they are written before in-buffer
settings.
If I use org-agenda to summarize all the book, they have to be heading.
Not only files.
To say it simply, when I split one Org file to multiples ones: Org-mode
features, like Agenda or status tracking, need to continue using
headings to represent books. While exporting need to use files to
represent books.
And I'm a bit confuse by this.
Best regards
- Questions about splitting a tree into multiple files,
Sébastien Gendre <=