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Very interesting. I suppose when you use this every day, you actually won't get "lost" within it. Also, this kind of links to the One Big Text File idea (discus

by marttt 6y ago

Very interesting. I suppose when you use this every day, you actually won't get "lost" within it. Also, this kind of links to the One Big Text File idea (discussed here and there quite often in around 2005-2006, see e.g. http://www.matthewcornell.org/blog/2005/8/21/my-big-arse-text-file-a-poor-mans-wikiblogpim.html http://www.matthewcornell.org/blog/2005/8/21/my-big-arse-tex...).

kragen 6y ago
Yeah, Danny O'Brien is a friend of mine, and we discussed the idea a bit at the time. I feel like it might be easier to not get lost with the file divided into units smaller than a megabyte though. Does org-mode scale up to files with 10,000 headings?
- marttt 6y ago
  Interesting question. I did some research, but couldn't figure this out. I did find a reddit thread where org's performance with larger files is discussed: https://old.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/e9p84n/scaling_org_better_to_use_more_medsize_files_or/ https://old.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/e9p84n/scaling_org... I suppose it is best to ask this in emacs-orgmode list. Re: One Big Text File: About a decade ago I used it daily for everything for about a year or even longer. Strangely, it was actually working remarkably well. I like to think that over time it grows into a nice image of a person's brain. It is very flexible -- loosely structured "dump" where needed, and strictly structured on other places. I abandoned it in favor of "one thought, one file" type of approaches, just out of curiosity, I guess; I was hoping to create a Zettelkasten That Works For Sure instead. But this never happened. I still think One Big Text File a great, somewhat forgotten idea. It's easy to add some structure to everyday use with scripting/grep, turning it into a loosely structured database of sorts. I did less of that at the time than I initially imagined myself doing, though.
  - kragen 6y ago
    Is One Big Text File somewhat forgotten? I think of it as being pretty prevalent, maybe more so now than before, now that org-mode is in such wide use.

by marttt 6y ago

kragen 6y ago

Yeah, Danny O'Brien is a friend of mine, and we discussed the idea a bit at the time. I feel like it might be easier to not get lost with the file divided into units smaller than a megabyte though. Does org-mode scale up to files with 10,000 headings?

marttt 6y ago
Interesting question. I did some research, but couldn't figure this out. I did find a reddit thread where org's performance with larger files is discussed: https://old.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/e9p84n/scaling_org_better_to_use_more_medsize_files_or/ https://old.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/e9p84n/scaling_org... I suppose it is best to ask this in emacs-orgmode list. Re: One Big Text File: About a decade ago I used it daily for everything for about a year or even longer. Strangely, it was actually working remarkably well. I like to think that over time it grows into a nice image of a person's brain. It is very flexible -- loosely structured "dump" where needed, and strictly structured on other places. I abandoned it in favor of "one thought, one file" type of approaches, just out of curiosity, I guess; I was hoping to create a Zettelkasten That Works For Sure instead. But this never happened. I still think One Big Text File a great, somewhat forgotten idea. It's easy to add some structure to everyday use with scripting/grep, turning it into a loosely structured database of sorts. I did less of that at the time than I initially imagined myself doing, though.
- kragen 6y ago
  Is One Big Text File somewhat forgotten? I think of it as being pretty prevalent, maybe more so now than before, now that org-mode is in such wide use.