Feature: org-brain-file-to-headline

[Kungsgeten]

Like org-brain-headline-to-file, but the other way around.

[emanresusername]

similarly, is there a way to take a header from an existing org-mode file and turn it into a proper org-brain entry/headline?

[Kungsgeten]

@emanresusername Not in a single command, no. You can, however, just copy the headline and paste it into a file in your org-brain directory. Then you can create an ID for the pasted headline, using M-x org-id-get-create. Now it will be treated as an entry.

[hagmonk]

For anyone who wants to experiment with this, it's pretty easy to do it in bulk. In my case I had a single parent headline with a couple of dozen children. Ensure point is on the parent headline, then eval (M-:) the following:

(org-map-tree 'org-id-get-create)

There is also org-map-region if you want to map this function across all the headlines in a region rather than a subtree.

Then run org-brain-visualize again, or hit v in an existing org-brain-visualize buffer.