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  • Maybe I didn't indicate clearly in the question...I have used agenda, but the problem is that I have other org files showing my schedules and TODOs for my agenda, and I don't want my notes to mess up the agenda view. Maybe what I want is something like the search function in Evernote since I want to use Emacs as my note taking application. Do you know Deft? It has a good search interface but is not org-related Commented Mar 14, 2015 at 17:33
  • @cutejumper I'm not sure I follow. What do you mean by "messing up the agenda view"? If the headlines in your Linux/Programming/etc. notes do not have TODO states associated with them, they shouldn't show up in your agenda when you list your TODO items. Commented Mar 14, 2015 at 20:34
  • Well, this way might be clearer: I actually want to have separate sets of agenda files. My understanding for agenda of the current org-mode is that it is more like a "global" set while I want a search interface for a certain "project"(kind of like projectile) so that when I do the search I only see the relevant contents in a "project". Do I overlook any functionality that agenda actually offers? Commented Mar 14, 2015 at 21:53
  • You can locally set org-agenda-files to just the files (or directory) your interested in inside an agenda template or use C-c a < to restrict the agenda search to only the current file. Commented Mar 15, 2015 at 0:08
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    @cutejumper I don't think the agenda buffer supports this use case out of the box. However, the command @BrianZ mentions in his answer (helm-org-agenda-files-headings) does exactly what you want (for headings). Note that you will need to set up directory-local variables in order to make it possible to run helm-org-agenda-files-headings on specific file sets. Commented Mar 15, 2015 at 9:34