org-project: Capture TODOs in project.el using org-mode
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alcanost · 2022-08-22 07:50



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alcanost · 2022-08-22 07:54

Hi! This is my first emacs package, vastly inspired from [org-
projectile](https://github.com/IvanMalison/org-projectile) but
designed around [project.el](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual
/html_node/emacs/Projects.html) instead of
[projectile](https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile)

The goals is to quickly capture TODO items in org-mode for the current
project, and then be able to find them back quickly.

It is not yet feature-complete, but does enough that it can be useful
for others.

Comments and advices appreciated!

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plm314 · 2022-08-22 10:56

This is a very useful project.  Thanks for doing it. Regarding the
documentation, it may help to add a link to your complete
configuration, or to a bunch of complete configs from other people.
Please document org-project-per-project-file and org-project-projects-
file.  If time permits, create a simple screencast to showcase the use
of the package. Finally, perhaps add the TODO.org for this project to
the GitHub entry.

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Deep-Fox6860 · 2022-08-22 18:48

Looks very nice! Will give it a try.

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IvanMalison · 2022-08-23 02:43

org-projectile author here... did you consider using org-projectile's
org-category-capture?

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It was designed for EXACTLY something like this so that the backend
for actually capturing things could be shared between projects.

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I don't really care much since I don't use org-mode anymore, but
sharing code in cases like this is generally a lotbetter

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alcanost · 2022-08-23 15:38

> did you consider using org-projectile's org-category-capture?

I used to, before dicthing it for two simple reasons:

  - I'm still finding my footing in elisp & the emacs APIs, so sdding
the whole CL-object layer/capture strategies on top of it was a bit
overwhelming;

  - I didn't need the category properties in the org entries, so it
was a bit overkill for simple capture.