* How do I insert just a time stamp in a capture template?
@ 2010-12-08 22:08 Charles Cave
2010-12-09 20:32 ` Juan Pechiar
2010-12-09 22:14 ` Charles Cave
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From: Charles Cave @ 2010-12-08 22:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
I use capture to log how I am spending my time. Every time I start a new task,
drink a cup of coffee, have a break, arrive at work, go home, I want to quickly
capture a note.
I use the following template
("l" "Log Time"
entry (file+datetree "c:/charles/My Dropbox/GTD/timelog.org")
"** %U - %^{Activity} :TIME:")
)
A typical entry from this template looks like:
* 2010
** 2010-12-December
*** 2010-12-09 Thursday
**** [2010-12-09 Thu 08:10] - Arrived at the office :TIME:
I would like to just have the time in the headline not the complete date time
stamp.
I couldn't find a % extension in the documenation
(9.1.3.2 Template expansion)
How can I just include a time only in the heading?
Charles
P.S. My capture-mode tutorial project should be released this weeekend
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2010-12-08 22:08 How do I insert just a time stamp in a capture template? Charles Cave
@ 2010-12-09 20:32 ` Juan Pechiar
2010-12-09 22:14 ` Charles Cave
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From: Juan Pechiar @ 2010-12-09 20:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Charles Cave; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
%(sexp) allows to include lisp expressions in a capture template.
%(format-time-string "%H:%M") should insert the current time.
Regards,
.j.
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:08:32PM +0000, Charles Cave wrote:
> I use the following template
>
> ("l" "Log Time"
> entry (file+datetree "c:/charles/My Dropbox/GTD/timelog.org")
> "** %U - %^{Activity} :TIME:")
> )
>
> A typical entry from this template looks like:
>
> * 2010
> ** 2010-12-December
> *** 2010-12-09 Thursday
> **** [2010-12-09 Thu 08:10] - Arrived at the office :TIME:
>
> I would like to just have the time in the headline not the complete date time
> stamp.
>
> I couldn't find a % extension in the documenation
> (9.1.3.2 Template expansion)
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2010-12-08 22:08 How do I insert just a time stamp in a capture template? Charles Cave
2010-12-09 20:32 ` Juan Pechiar
@ 2010-12-09 22:14 ` Charles Cave
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Charles Cave @ 2010-12-09 22:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Charles Cave <charles.cave <at> gmail.com> writes:
> ("l" "Log Time"
> entry (file+datetree "c:/charles/My Dropbox/GTD/timelog.org")
> "** %U - %^{Activity} :TIME:")
> How can I just include a time only in the heading?
Thank you Juan for responding to my question:
%(sexp) allows to include lisp expressions in a capture template.
%(format-time-string "%H:%M") should insert the current time.
My template now looks like
("l" "Log Time" entry (file+datetree "c:/charles/My Dropbox/GTD/timelog.org")
"** %(format-time-string \"%H:%M\") - %^{Activity} :TIME:")
Note the escaped quotation marks near %H:%M because this function is inside
another string.
Here are today's entries from the timelog.org file
*** 2010-12-10 Friday
**** 08:45 - Arrived - coffee and email :TIME:
**** 09:00 - Updated sexp in .emacs :TIME:
**** 09:13 - Responded to org-mode postings :TIME:
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