{"id":8433,"date":"2019-11-09T10:06:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T15:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8433"},"modified":"2019-11-09T10:06:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T15:06:26","slug":"project-and-org-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8433","title":{"rendered":"Project and Org Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Voit has an interesting post in which he explores ways of <a href=\"https:\/\/karl-voit.at\/2019\/11\/03\/org-projects\/\">defining projects in Org-mode<\/a>. Note that by \u201cproject\u201d Voit doesn\u2019t mean the type of object handled by an app such as <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bbatsov\/projectile\">Projectile<\/a>, but a set of tasks meant to achieve a common goal. If you\u2019re like me, the answer seems obvious: add a <code>project<\/code> tag to the header defining the project.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, things aren\u2019t that simple, especially for someone like Voit who on the one hand has exacting standards for how things should appear in, say, his agenda but on the other hand wants very fluid Org files. By \u201cfluid\u201d I mean that projects aren\u2019t necessarily top level items or even second level items. They can appear anywhere in the tree. I\u2019m inclined to be more rigid in my Org file layout so I avoid some of the problems that Voit has.<\/p>\n<p>Voit discusses several possibilities along with their pros and cons. I\u2019ll let you read his post to see what solution he finally settled on. If you\u2019re trying to impose a project structure on top of Org, it\u2019s definitely worth taking a look at his discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Voit has an interesting post in which he explores ways of defining projects in Org-mode. Note that by \u201cproject\u201d Voit doesn\u2019t mean the type of object handled by an app such as Projectile, but a set of tasks meant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8433\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,4],"class_list":["post-8433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs","tag-org-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8434,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions\/8434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}