Quickly each inside all your emacs org mode files

searchinorgfiles

Table of Contents

• 1 How to search a string of text inside all your org files?
• 2 Alias

1 How to search a string of text inside all your org files?

You can do this very easily by using the grep command in linux:

grep -rnw '~/orgfolder/' --include \*.org -s -e stringoftext

beware that the syntax of this command may be a little different depending on the version that you are using (especially the --include part of the command).

Anyway the grep command will return a list with all the .org files containing the stringoftext that you were looking for.

2 Alias

It can be very useful to set up an alias for this command in order to speed up the searching process.

Enjoy!

Date: 2015-11-22 11:03:12 CET

Author: falematte

Org version 7.8.02 with Emacs version 23

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Org mode TODO from cellphone 2

Table of Contents

• 1 Motivations
• 2 Software used
• 3 What to do
  • 3.1 Connect your Dropbox account to IFTTT
  • 3.2 Download the DO notes app
  • 3.3 Use DO note to trigger the recipe introduced in the previous article
  • 3.4 Use a linux script to copy the notes to your org file

1 Motivations

1. This is an update to a post that I wrote some days ago where I described how you can simply add emacs org mode notes from whatever device able to send an email without using any apps using IFTTT.
2. IFTTT created a new, very useful, app for Android and Apple mobile devices which is called DO note. You can use it to trigger a recipe just by writing text on your device and by clicking a button which is even simpler and faster than sending an email;

2 Software used

1. IFTTT
2. Dropbox
3. Do

3 What to do

3.1 Connect your Dropbox account to IFTTT

3.2 Download the DO notes app

3.3 Use DO note to trigger the recipe introduced in the previous article

3.4 Use a linux script to copy the notes to your org file

#!/bin/bash

cat ~/Dropbox/ifttt/Email/mobile_todo.txt >> ~/Dropbox/org/notes.org

cat /dev/null > ~/Dropbox/ifttt/Email/mobile_todo.txt

I run this script automatically every time that I turn on my computer.

Date: 2015-03-20 09:46:24 CET

Author: falematte

Org version 7.8.02 with Emacs version 23

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Org mode TODO from cellphone

orgmodefrombile

Table of Contents

• 1 Motivations
• 2 Software used
• 3 What to do
  • 3.1 Connect your Dropbox account to IFTTT
  • 3.2 Use this recipe to register your notes in a .txt file
  • 3.3 Use a linux script to copy the notes to your org file

1 Motivations

I want to quickly add notes and TODO from any of my devices, without emacs, i.e. from my Android cellphone. In my opinion the best way to do this is to use an email trigger witch uses the body of your email as the TODO content. You can send the email from every device you own. A linux script can be used in order to copy the txt file content from your Dropbox into your appropriate org file.

2 Software used

1. IFTTT
2. Linux shell
3. Dropbox

3 What to do

3.1 Connect your Dropbox account to IFTTT

3.2 Use this recipe to register your notes in a .txt file

3.3 Use a linux script to copy the notes to your org file

#!/bin/bash

cat ~/Dropbox/ifttt/Email/mobile_todo.txt >> ~/Dropbox/org/notes.org

cat /dev/null > ~/Dropbox/ifttt/Email/mobile_todo.txt

Date: 2015-01-02 10:42:49 CET

Author: falematte

Org version 7.8.02 with Emacs version 23

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