[Orgmode] Re: refiling

[Matt Lundin]

Hi Richard,

Richard Riley <address@hidden> writes:

> Two major issues for me to get my head around.
>
> 1) Tags v Categories. Its not entirely obvious to me what categories are
> for. Are they like a more specialised tag?

Categories are primarily for visibility in the agenda. I use them to
remind myself what project or "area of responsibility" an item belongs
to. If I label a particular project with the category "article", I can
easily identify tasks belonging to that project. E.g., tasks from the
following project...

,----
| * PROJECT Write article                                                   
:PROJECT:
|   :PROPERTIES:
|   :CATEGORY: article
|   :END:
| ** TODO Do some online research                                          
:computer:
|    SCHEDULED: <2010-01-13 Wed>
| ** TODO Outline article                                                       
:rwb:
|    SCHEDULED: <2010-01-13 Wed>
`----

...appear as follows in the agenda:

,----
| Day-agenda (W02):
| Wednesday  13 January 2010
|   article:    Scheduled:  TODO Do some online research                
:computer:
|   article:    Scheduled:  TODO Outline article                             
:rwb:
`----

Thanks to the category, I can see what project the otherwise cryptic "Do
some online research" belongs to.

> 2) Refiling. Lets says I have something like this in linux.org:-
>
> * general    :general:
> #+CATEGORY: general
> ** learn org mode   :emacs:org:
> blah blah
> * debian    :debian:
> #+CATEGORY: debian
> * test

This syntax for categories has been deprecated. Better to use
properties, as in the example above. 

>
> if I refile from elsewhere, it picks ALL items at a level to refile to when I 
> select
> linux.org. 
>
> e.g linux.org/general, linux.org/debian, linux.org/test
>
> If I then select "general" it also prompts for me now to select "learn
> org mode". Is this because of some hangover from me using org-mode? In
> other words I cant refile to linux.org/debian.

Refile completion follows the hierarchy of your outline. Thus, once you
have limited the results to linux.org/general, org-refile will only
offer you subtrees belonging to "general." If you want more flexible
completion, you can fiddle around with the variables
org-refile-use-outline-path, org-completion-use-ido,
and org-outline-path-complete-in-steps.

Best,
Matt