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org-rifle

Emacs Lisp2016–2020

alphapapa / org-rifle

org-rifle

Rifle through your Org-mode buffers and acquire your target

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What it is

Rifle through your Org-mode buffers and acquire your target

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Observed mentions: 2016-04-06 02:30:37 UTC to 2020-09-12 09:20:53 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2

What Hacker News says

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submeta·Sep 12, 2020

I higly depend on `helm-org-rifle' [1]. Lets me search trough all my org files (headars and content) and presents the results beautifully in a temp buffer. - Would be very sad if development of helm would stop. And yes, ivy is an awesome package. Higly recommend it. [1]: https://github.com/alphapapa/org-rifle

In Emacs-Helm development is now stalled

dmortin·Apr 5, 2020

The graph seems more like a gimmick, but the automatic backlinks are nice. Org mode is a really good text-file based solution for notes, especially with tools like org-rifle: https://github.com/alphapapa/org-rifle The other day people wrote in an other thread they use grep for their text notes. But what if you have notes with longer, multiline texts? With org-rifle the input words can be anywhere in the multiline note and they can be in any order.

In Org-roam: Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode

dmortin·Nov 30, 2019

I simply use org-rifle for searching. It's great: https://github.com/alphapapa/org-rifle

In Find stuff in org-mode anywhere (2017)

dmortin·May 25, 2019

I also use Org to store data and I use org-rifle to search it: https://github.com/alphapapa/helm-org-rifle I don't know if Deft recognizes org mode entries, but org-rifle provides entry-based search.

In Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository?

dmortin·Jul 16, 2018

Org caputre is great. Also, helm-org-rifle is an excellent way to quickly find something in your notes: https://github.com/alphapapa/helm-org-rifle You can give mulitple search terms to search for them in any order with instant results when typing.

In Keeping a plaintext “did” file

alphapapa·Mar 9, 2017

Shameless plug: http://github.com/alphapapa/helm-org-rifle Makes it very easy and fast to search through org files.

In Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

alphapapa·Apr 6, 2016

Deft is good if you store notes in many small files, but doing that gives up many of the powerful features built-in to Org, like the Agenda. (Unless you want to add every little file to your agenda-files list...) You might find this useful: https://github.com/alphapapa/helm-org-rifle

In Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text