Re: RFC: Improvements to org-remember

From: Ben Alexander <bva@alexanderonline.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Improvements to org-remember
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:50:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21E07097-0FF3-40E1-8BD8-A12B7D5099BC@alexanderonline.org> (raw)

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On 2008-Nov-24, at 04:25, emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org wrote:

> From: James TD Smith <ahktenzero@mohorovi.cc>
> Date: 24 November 2008 01:25:57 EET
> To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: [Orgmode] RFC: Improvements to org-remember
>
> * New features
> ** Adding non-headline items
>
That's a fantastic idea!
>
> ** Updating completion statistics
>
> ** Automatic sorting
>
Right now, I have a :SORT: property in my property drawer which looks  
like:
   :SORT: C-c S-6 p
This is just a reminder to me for the key chord I need to play to get  
the sort I want.  It's conveniently located near the headline and not  
too hard to open and read when I need to resort manually.

It seems to me that having an hook like 'org-remember-after-filing  
would allow people to choose what kinds of updating they wanted done  
after a remember template was used.   Mixing this with different types  
of templates may take some care: you don't want to run all the hooks  
inside a save-excursion if the point to to allow the hook to move  
point to a special place, but then all hooks would have to be written  
with that in mind. Perhaps the hooks should be run inside a (let )  
with some official bindings for markers for the following:
  - org-remember-marker-to-beginning-of-new-text
  - org-remember-marker-to-end-of-new-text
  - org-remember-marker-to-parent-headline (perhaps most useful for  
non-headline remember templates)
  - org-remember-template-type

But automatic sorting seems useful in many other contexts (like after  
scheduling or rescheduling an item, or changing priority, or editing  
the headline text) so perhaps some wishes/ideas from the list would be  
appropriate.  Could org-mode take ownership of the :SORT: property for  
headlines, and have a org-sort-file-using-property (or a org-sort- 
headline-using-property) which could be added to hook lists where-ever  
the user wanted?

Or is this too specific?  Would it be nice to have plain lists (or  
checkboxed lists) have some kind of sort property too? Where could a  
user store this data so it could be easy to see but also easy to ignore.

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