Re: [Orgmode] refiling

[Manish]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Richard Riley wrote:
>
> I'm a bit rusty so please excuse any stupid questions.
>
> I decided to clear up my org files which are, frankly, a mess.
>
> Two major issues for me to get my head around.
>
> 1) Tags v Categories. Its not entirely obvious to me what categories are
> for. Are they like a more specialised tag?

To me they are a means to provide some more context only.  But I do
not use them at all - I hide them using the excellent
my-org-agenda-toggle-list-category function courtesy Manuel
Hermengildo (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/10909).

>
> 2) Refiling. Lets says I have something like this in linux.org:-
>
> * general    :general:
> #+CATEGORY: general
> ** learn org mode   :emacs:org:
> blah blah
> * debian    :debian:
> #+CATEGORY: debian
>
> * test
>
> if I refile from elsewhere, it picks ALL items at a level to refile to when I 
> select
> linux.org.
>
> e.g linux.org/general, linux.org/debian, linux.org/test
>
> If I then select "general" it also prompts for me now to select "learn
> org mode". Is this because of some hangover from me using org-mode? In
> other words I cant refile to linux.org/debian.

Not sure.. may be looking at varible
org-refile-allow-creating-parent-nodes would help.

HTH
-- 
Manish