From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell Adams Subject: Re: RFC: Improvements to org-remember Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:57:11 -0600 Message-ID: <20081124165711.GC13822@thinkpad.adamsinfoserv.com> References: <20081123232557.GC62148@yog-sothoth.mohorovi.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4ekU-0001W7-V8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:57:23 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4ekQ-0001UO-R3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:57:22 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53769 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4ekQ-0001UJ-Ou for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:57:18 -0500 Received: from squirtle.drak.net ([72.52.144.201]:49645) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4ekQ-0002ie-1N for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:57:18 -0500 Received: from [206.180.154.148] (helo=localhost) by squirtle.drak.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L4ekI-0008II-Ci for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:57:10 -0600 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:58:49AM +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > Hi James, I do like all this. A few comments: > > On Nov 24, 2008, at 12:25 AM, James TD Smith wrote: > ... > >> ** Adding non-headline items >> >> For some time I have wanted to be able to use remember to add >> checklist >> entries and table rows as well as org headlines. To configure this, a >> :type >> parameter will be added to the template, which can be either headline >> (the >> default), list, checklist or table. >> >> - Table rows. > > This is an awesome idea, as are plain list items and checkboxes. > > For plain list items, I guess the right thing would be to select the > first plain list under the headline, there might be several. > Also, the first table under a headline, in case there are more. > Table rows would rock! > I would like to add here > > - Non-org items, to simply be appended to a file. > I believe Russel Adams had a request about this, on how to use > remember to add entries to a ledger file, for which using a > template would be nice. The problem is that Org currently requires > the target file to be in Org-mode - for good reasons, because all > kinds of Org stuff will be executed when the new entry is added. > We should allow for the results of a remember template to be added > to a non-Org file. This style of adding to non-org files essentially makes remember a template generated data entry front end for arbitrary text. This would make the ledger file easy. My idea was to use remember to quickly enter time/expenses/mileage into my ledger. Thanks for your efforts! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3