ReOrg

An Org mode file organizer.

Instead of having tons of sparsed Org mode files everywhere, this project attemtps to give the Org mode writer a framework to re-organize the files in a less chaotic manner.

re-org is distributed using rubygems:

$ gem install re-org

The idea here is to have a pair of todo and done folders. Writings that are still in progress would go into the todo folder and those that are considered as finished can go into the done directory.

Let’s say that we want to create a new writing:

$ re-org new writing

This would create a file at todo/2013-12-09-november.org with the following contents below that we can use to just start writing:

# -*- mode: org -*-
#+OPTIONS:      ^:nil
#+TITLE:        November
#+DATE:         2013-12-09
#+STARTUP:      showeverything
#+NOTEBOOK:     re-org

* 
  :PROPERTIES:
  :DATE:     2013-12-09 
  :NOTEBOOK: re-org
  :END:

* COMMENT ________
# Local Variables:
# eval: (auto-fill-mode t)
# eval: (progn (goto-line 0)(re-search-forward ":PROPERTIES:") (org-narrow-to-subtree))
# End:

That above is using the writing template that I like using for starting a new text that I don’t usually would publish.

We can inspect at the available templates as follows:

  $ re-org templates
  
  * Default Templates
  
  - clockfile.org (default)
  - jekyll-post.org       (default)
  - notebook.org  (default)
  - writing.org   (default)
  
  $ re-org templates --name=writing.org
# -*- mode: org -*-
#+OPTIONS: ^:nil
#+TITLE: <%= @org[:title] %>
#+DATE:  <%= @org[:date] %>
#+STARTUP: showeverything
#+NOTEBOOK: <%= @org[:notebook] %>

* 
  :PROPERTIES:
  :DATE:     <%= @org[:date] %> 
  :NOTEBOOK: <%= @org[:notebook] %>
  :END:


* COMMENT ________
# Local Variables:
# eval: (auto-fill-mode t)
# eval: (progn (goto-line 0)(re-search-forward ":PROPERTIES:") (org-narrow-to-subtree))
# End:

A more interesting would be when preparing a Jekyll blog post. re-org currently detects whether the project is a Jekyll project or not by checking whether a _config.yml exists at the APP_ROOT. When using Jekyll, re-org expects that the name of the folders would be _drafts and _posts.

We can use the included template for Jekyll like this:

re-org new jekyll-post --title=using-jekyll-and-org-mode

…and this would create a file at _drafts/2013-12-06-using-jekyll-and-org-mode

#+title:         Using jekyll and org mode
#+date:          2013-12-09
#+layout:        post
#+category:      posts

Other ideas are still a work in progress at this point.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am ‘Added some feature’`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create new Pull Request