Thanks John. You are right, although I think having to read too many org
files would make the agenda run slower. And creates a lot of buffers (one
per file) which makes navigation more complicated. I always wished that
the agenda would close those buffers. Anyway, I think that having a
single file is the best option.
>
> Julian Burgos writes:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I have been using org-ref for a while, using reftex to insert citations
>> in
>> my org documents. Now I am switching to helm-bibtex, which is pretty
>> awesome. I have a couple of question about the note files. Org-ref
>> uses
>> a single file to keep notes (e.g. notes.org), but helm-bibtex assumes
>> that
>> notes are kept in separate files, one per article. My questions are:
>>
>> a) Do you have a preference in the single file vs multiple files
>> question?
>> Are advantages/disadvantages? I tend to prefer the single file option,
>> it makes search easy and also I can add TODO items that later I can pull
>> out in the agenda view.
>
> I prefer the single file, for the reasons you describe.
>
>> With multiple files this would not be as easy.
>> Do you agree?
> This is not totally true. You can add your directory of org notes to
> your org-agenda-files, e.g.
>
> (setq org-agenda-files '("~/path/to/org-notes"))
>
> and it will add all org files in that directory to your agenda. If you
> use helm, it is probably easy to search all of the files too.
>
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