I do plan on recognising and supporting drawers in a future release. I'll take a look at how Orgzly presents these to the user as part of planning how I intend this to work. Support the PROPERTIES drawer will enable a number of additional features so I am keen to do this relatively soon.
I was only targeting folding/unfolding i.e. visibility cycling. If you support PROPERTIES you have to deal with visibility cycling; and it should not be difficult to include all drawers, and not only PROPERTIES.
My main concern was with compatibility with emacs and orgzly. You can have big drawers in file that are folded in emacs and orgzly, and appear as garbage in beorg.
I hope you can consider it while implementing PROPERTIES.
As someone that has a PROPERTIES drawer added to every item, I can't wait to see this implemented!
Thanks for the clarification on this request. I guess there are a number of things to implement:
1. Getting beorg to parse drawers and then update/read the property drawer programatically
2. In the outliner there should be a way of expanding/collapsing drawers
3. When HTML is rendered (for use when showing notes in the item editor and for document export) drawers should be hidden as it doesn't make sense to show them here
I believe that there are many people really need this feature just like me !
I would definitely like to support drawers in general and PROPERTIES specifcally... I'd love to be able to write scheme filters against things like "style: habit" or "effort: 0:05" or other common uses of properties.
I'm going to try toying around with scheme to see if I can come up with a way of capturing just the properties drawer, but it's a bit clunky to play in that sandbox now without even a console.log equivalent.
It would also probably be best if drawers were ignored when showing push notificatons of scheduled items
I often have todo items that are like...
* headline that i'd like to see SCHEDULED: <2019-07-11 Thu> :PROPERTIES: stuff_i_care_about: 0 ... :END: body text that would be better to show than the properties drawer
I have started work on support for drawers, including special recognition of PROPERTIES and LOGBOOK drawers. Such drawers will be hidden by default when exporting files/items and in notifications. You'll certainly be able to search for items with specific properties - for example "t shopping r shop supermarket" will find times tagged with "Shopping" and where a property "SHOP" is set to "Supermarket" (note search will be case insensitive).
This is likely to be released at the end of July/beginning of August.
One feature for drawers that would be particularly nice for me would be logging repeated tasks into the :LOGGING: drawer as right now I do have the option logdrawer set in my orgmode files but when I mark repeating tasks off as done in beorg, it puts it outside of the logging drawer which also seems to lead to all sorts of other problems when working directly with orgmode. That said, this is less of a needed feature as a simple fix would just be to not log it into a drawer - but I do find this feature quite useful especially with tasks that use the "habit" style.
I'll look at including this in the next release which has some support for drawers.
beorg understands and parses drawers internally. This enables searching of properties and is used by the new task timers (clocking) feature. However for the moment that it is the limit of the support for drawers. Eventually I want to enable easy editing of drawer contents (particular properties drawers) and folding of drawers when displayed in the outline.
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