Late the party, and actually found this thread googling around for “Org-mode file/organization strategies.” I’ve been using Org exclusively for work notes, and am finding myself in a similar situation re. being unwieldy. I constantly struggle with choosing one file per project, one big file with one headline per project, or files dedicated by type (one for todos, one for daily journal logs of experiments/efforts, references, etc.).
Org seems like it should be great for moving stuff around, but I find it not that easy. Refiling a mess of headlines seems to be cumbersome, and how do I know that my new strategy will last/work?
I’d love to know how Evernote solves the unwieldy issue for you. I’ve tried Evernote, Wunderlist, TiddlyWiki, todo.sh, Zim, and I’m sure others I’m not remembering.
What I’ll never give up is the ability to intersperse prose and code. I love, love, love writing all my work reports with embedded R code for analyses in Org-mode, exporting to really nice looking PDF reports. Super awesome, and soooo easy vs. writing all the code elsewhere to generate plots and then inserting them one by one into a ppt. In that respect, Org is awesome. I just haven’t figured out an information hierarchy/taxonomy that makes me happy.
It looks like I wrote the grandparent comment over two years ago and I am still primarily using Evernote and Nozbe. Evernote is invaluable for its ability to capture practically any form of information very quickly and then search it later. I can also intersperse “capture” items like reminders with “work” items like drafts of writing.
Nozbe is a fully functional GTD application and it’s the backbone of how I manage my tasks.
Theoretically org-mode is great because it combines capture with workspace, but in practice I always found it impossible to smoothly transfer between those two functions.
Late the party, and actually found this thread googling around for “Org-mode file/organization strategies.” I’ve been using Org exclusively for work notes, and am finding myself in a similar situation re. being unwieldy. I constantly struggle with choosing one file per project, one big file with one headline per project, or files dedicated by type (one for todos, one for daily journal logs of experiments/efforts, references, etc.).
Org seems like it should be great for moving stuff around, but I find it not that easy. Refiling a mess of headlines seems to be cumbersome, and how do I know that my new strategy will last/work?
I’d love to know how Evernote solves the unwieldy issue for you. I’ve tried Evernote, Wunderlist, TiddlyWiki, todo.sh, Zim, and I’m sure others I’m not remembering.
What I’ll never give up is the ability to intersperse prose and code. I love, love, love writing all my work reports with embedded R code for analyses in Org-mode, exporting to really nice looking PDF reports. Super awesome, and soooo easy vs. writing all the code elsewhere to generate plots and then inserting them one by one into a ppt. In that respect, Org is awesome. I just haven’t figured out an information hierarchy/taxonomy that makes me happy.
It looks like I wrote the grandparent comment over two years ago and I am still primarily using Evernote and Nozbe. Evernote is invaluable for its ability to capture practically any form of information very quickly and then search it later. I can also intersperse “capture” items like reminders with “work” items like drafts of writing.
Nozbe is a fully functional GTD application and it’s the backbone of how I manage my tasks.
Theoretically org-mode is great because it combines capture with workspace, but in practice I always found it impossible to smoothly transfer between those two functions.