org-transclusion

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Hello, thanks for the package. I was wondering if it's possible to mirror a heading into another heading or a title live?

For example if I have this org file:

#+TITLE:    My Title
* My Title

If I update the heading My Title to My New Title, the text in #+TITLE: changes.

#+TITLE:    My New Title
* My New Title

If this is not possible in org-transclusion. The best thing I could think of is this, unless you have a better suggestion?

(add-to-list 'after-change-functions (lambda (beg end len) (message "Beg %s End %s len %s..."  beg end len)) )

One would have to:

1. when re-search-forward Find the start and end points for the first heading. Account for entered text.
2. when looking-back at first heading.
3. Change the text in the title.
4. Only enable for certain files: org-mode-hook when string-match bufer-name enable the function.

This is not something org-transclusion does.

I am not sure of a better way; if your method works, I think that’s good enough.

For the example you are showing above, I would simply copy the new heading description manually over to the title. Changing a heading description, to me, is very specific (so is changing the title).

What is the reason for your need to sync them?

Yea that's what I'm doing right now copying them over.

Every time I'm writing something on my diary/journal and I need to change the heading because something else happened in the day I have to go up to the title and change it as well in case I want to print it out or export it to a pdf. If 4 things happen I have to change it 3 times (e.g Dentist Appt Gym PR Mom Visit).

So if something happens during the day I want to change the title to Dentist Gym PR now I have to change it in two places, not a big deal I can copy and paste but you get the idea.

#+TITLE:    Dentist
#+SUBTITLE:
#+DATE:     04-04-2023
#+FILETAGS: April 2023 Journal
#+SETUPFILE: ~/notes-setup.org
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil num:nil html-style:nil author:nil

* Dentist
:PROPERTIES:
:DATE:     [2023-04-04 Tue 13:10]
:UPDATED:  [2023-04-04 Tue 13:10]
:PRO: 4
:WORKOUT: t
:END:

** Summary                                                       :summary:

Went to the dentist today.

** Dental Cleaning                                              :dental:

Some notes here about my visit.

** Gym

Had a great workout set a new PR on the Leg Press. I've noticed that using pin 3 on the
machine feels better on my back.

I do export big events like going to the dentist which requires me updating the entire file at two locations, that's where I may benefit from this package.

For example: If I needed to add something the dentist told me to my journal, I would have update the file ~/journal/2023-04-04.org and ~/docs/dental/2023/cleaning.org.

Why would I want two separate files? Because I don't want to keep confidential information in my journal. For example cleaning.org I could export it with additional things like a receipts or images of my xrays. Then I would have cleaning.pdf.