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Best way to search org-mode files? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by lovegirin@alien.top to c/emacs
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I've been using org-mode for my personal notes/wiki and have quite a few files across a handful of folders. They keep on growing.

Scenario:

I'm sitting in dired and want to rename a file. How does one do that again...? I know I've made notes on this before, but I can't remember which file in which folder. I remember I tagged it with :dired:, though.

What would be the fastest way to search for this? Is there a way to do a search like rename tag=dired, or similar, in a folder w/subfolders, across all my org-mode notes?

I should also mention that I really don't want to install any extra packages for this.

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[–] paulmccombs@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

If all your org files are in your org agenda files variable you can use the org agenda to search.

I hit C-a to run org-agenda, they hit m to match tags, among other things, and type in :dired: . It will return a list of headings with the :dired: tag from all your specified agenda files.