I use journal.el, it simply creates a new file in a specified directory with
the current date timestamp. I have modified it to create files with the .org
extension. I don't know why, but I prefer daily entries to be in separate
files.

Marcelo.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org> wrote:

> T o n g wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found people are using org-mode for diary writing in recent mlist
>> archive, but wasn't able to find such tutorials.
>> Anyone can enlighten me with such tutorial, which is for org-mode newbies
>> and focusing on how to make most use of applicable org-mode features, and
>> maybe a bonus "best-practice diary writing with org-mode"?
>>
>>  I am not aware of any tutorials. However, at the moment I use remember
> with the following template:
>
> ("Journal" ?j "* %^U :journal:\n\n** %^{Prompt}  %i%&\n  %!"
> "~/Documents/org/journal/journal_2009.org")
>
> This stores entries as a headline under the date so an entry will look
> like:
>
> * [2009-11-15 Sun] :journal:
>
> ** Ironbridge Gorge.
> Your text goes here.
>
> This doesn't attempt to avoid duplicate date entries from calling the
> template twice. If I have already created an entry for that day I simply
>  open my journal file and append stuff under that heading.
>
> At the end of each month I create a month heading and move each day under
> it, like:
>
> * 2009-08 August
> ** [2009-08-31 Mon]
>  Fetched More Logs from the Wood.
>
>
> I keep each year in a separate file. I could make this much more automated,
> but it's just as easy to do it manually.
>
> You might also want to see my recent message "[Orgmode] org-datetree Some
> Suggestions". Carsten has recently introduced the datetree directive in
> remember templates, which should be very useful for automated diary entries.
>
> Ian.
>
>
>
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