Re: org-refile using the ID of the target

[Eglur <jackb3793@gmail.com>]

Hello, Christian.
Thanks for the tip!
It is indeed a very good solution.

For now, I’m improvising the one-key approach with this

~/.emacs.d/init.el:

(setq org-speed-commands-user
      '(("j" my/org-quick-refile)))

(defun my/org-quick-refile ()
  "Refile subtree using list of predefined targets."
  (interactive)

  (let ((choice (car (read-multiple-choice
                      "Refile where?"
                      '((?j "Journal")
                        (?a "Project 1 Notes")
                        (?s "Project 2 Notes"))))))
    (let ((id
           (cond
            ((= ?a choice) "eb952006-71f4-4fc3-93d0-9f0cb61aed5b")
            ((= ?s choice) "3e444863-a617-414d-97bf-31fdd888b4dc")
            ((= ?j choice) "journal"))))
      (if id
          (if (string= id "journal")
              (my/org-journal-pre-resolve-with-header)
            (my/org-refile-to-id id ""))))))

(defun my/org-refile-to-id (id &optional todo)
  "Refile current subtree to subtree with ID."
  (interactive (list (read-string "ID: ")))
  (when todo (org-todo todo))
  (org-cut-subtree)
  (let ((anchor (ignore-errors (org-id-get-create))))
    (org-id-goto id)
    (org-insert-heading-respect-content)
    (org-demote-subtree)
    (org-yank)
    (exchange-point-and-mark)
    (zap-to-char 1 (string-to-char " "))
    (move-beginning-of-line nil)
    (if anchor
        (org-id-goto anchor)
     (message "This was the last one."))))

P.S.: Please ignore the ‘my/org-journal-pre-resolve-with-header’---it’s
a /very/ ugly newbie hack that I commited what I would like to believe
ages ago.

Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> writes:

> My approach is to tag the equivalent of your "Notes" subtree of the
> various projects in my agenda files with an :INBOX: tag.
>
> The following code in .emacs then makes sure they are presented as
> refile targets:
>
> ;; Refile
> (setq org-refile-targets
>       '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "INBOX")) ;; Inbox subtree in each file
> 	(nil . (:level . 1))))                ;; and all top headings current buffer
> (setq org-refile-use-outline-path t)
>
> It may not be quite as fast as what you have in mind, but it is perhaps
> more flexible, and saves having to define or remember those keys.
>
> If you already consistently use "Notes" as the heading for this purpose,
> you might not even need to tag them; you could try simply replacing
> (:tag . "INBOX") above with (:regexp . "Notes").
> (This might cast too wide a net, though.) See the documentation for
> org-refile targets.
>
> Yours,
> Christian
>
> Jack Bauer writes:
>
>> I take a lot of notes using MobileOrg in my phone, and after syncing, they go into in.org (my gtd "in basket"). From there, I do the capturing
>> process.
>>
>> Thing is, sometimes there's a *lot* of notes that I just want to refile to the "Notes" subtree from the corresponding project/context. A quick
>> way to do that would be nice.
>>
>> My idea was to use the org-speed-commands-user to have a single key to press for each category of note. I'd add entries like
>>
>> ("Q" (my/org-refile-to-id <ID of Notes-subtree from project Q> "TODO")
>>
>> ("W" (my/org-refile-to-id <ID of Notes-subtree from project W> "DONE")
>>
>> ("E" (my/org-refile-to-id <ID of Notes-subtree from project E> "")
>>
>> At first, I tried using org-refile, but couldn't find a way to tell it to refile to a specific subtree (eg, using its id).
>>
>> Then I started hackstumbling around. So far, what I could come up with was:
>>
>> (defun my/org-refile-to-id (id &optional todo)
>>   "Refile current subtree to subtree with ID."
>>   (interactive
>>    (list (read-string "ID: ")))
>>   (when todo (org-todo todo))
>>   (org-cut-subtree)
>>   (let ((anchor (ignore-errors (org-id-get-create))))
>>     (org-id-goto id)
>>     (org-insert-heading-respect-content)
>>     (org-demote-subtree)
>>     (org-yank)
>>     (exchange-point-and-mark)
>>     (zap-to-char 1 (string-to-char " "))
>>     (move-beginning-of-line nil)
>>     (if anchor
>>         (org-id-goto anchor)
>>      (message "This was the last one."))))
>>
>> It feels kinda messy, though.
>>
>> Any advice would be more than welcome!