# Advice: How to setup directories for working with org-roam

**URL:** <https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/advice-how-to-setup-directories-for-working-with-org-roam/3796>\
**Category:** Requests\
**Created:** [April 21, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/advice-how-to-setup-directories-for-working-with-org-roam/3796 "2025-04-21T05:23:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nanounanue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Nanounanue](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/Nanounanue)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/advice-how-to-setup-directories-for-working-with-org-roam/3796/1 "2025-04-21T05:23:11Z")

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Hi!

I am retaking my research after one year, but I would like to ask to the community how do they work in academic/research/consultant settings?

Let me clarify my question: I have a directory for my org-roam nodes (~/roam). But I usually work drafting classes or documents in git repositories (located on ~/projects). Is this correct? What do you think? What do you do?

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**Author:** ![orgroamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/54ee81/32.png) [@orgroamer](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/orgroamer)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/advice-how-to-setup-directories-for-working-with-org-roam/3796/2 "2025-04-21T14:28:03Z")

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How do you draft classes or documents in git repositories?

I have my entire set of Org-roam notes in a git repository, using [git-auto-commit-mode](https://github.com/ryuslash/git-auto-commit-mode) to auto-commit on save. It works flawlessly. This could potentially be useful to you?

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**Author:** ![Nanounanue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Nanounanue](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/Nanounanue)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/advice-how-to-setup-directories-for-working-with-org-roam/3796/3 "2025-04-21T21:59:10Z")

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For my org-roam notes, I have the same setup than you, but if I need to work in a project or I am working in my lecture slides for my students, I work in different git repositories: one for each class, one for each consultancy project. If I need to refer to my org-roam notes, it feels that they are not so well integrated, and I lost some connections. Does that make sense?

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**Author:** ![orgroamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/54ee81/32.png) [@orgroamer](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/orgroamer)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/advice-how-to-setup-directories-for-working-with-org-roam/3796/4 "2025-04-22T18:08:31Z")

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I believe you can setup multiple Org-roam directories that communicate with each other, but I do not do it myself, so can’t help there unfortunately.

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**Author:** ![Nanounanue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Nanounanue](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/Nanounanue)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/advice-how-to-setup-directories-for-working-with-org-roam/3796/5 "2025-04-22T21:56:44Z")

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Thank you. I will check the manual and I will wait to see have a better workflow than mine