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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Awesome! Date-tree from agenda!
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:32:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2AF51A11-F4F4-4734-ABC7-1992271E883E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ob57qoy.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk>


On Nov 25, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've been looking for a way to do quick "journal" entries
>> for /past/ dates, and was disappointed that the Journal
>> capture template always used the current date.
>>
>> I found out you can go to a date in the agenda, and press "k c",  
>> which
>> will cause any capture-template to use the date in the agenda, not  
>> today's date.

Glad to hear that someone is using agenda actions.

>> This will use the agenda's date when putting journal entries into a
>> file like this:
>
> Thanks for this.  I have always been a little frustrated by the
> limitation you mention above (but obviously not frustrated enough to  
> do
> anything about it).  using the agenda view to accomplish this is
> perfectly fine!


There is now also a new capture target type

(file+datetree+prompt "path/to/file")

which will prompt you for the date (RET will still use today then....)

Hope this proves to be useful.

- Carsten

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-25 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-24 23:11 Awesome! Date-tree from agenda! Nathan Neff
2010-11-25  8:00 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-25 21:32   ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-11-26  7:06     ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-26 17:59       ` What is your journaling setup? (was " Tommy Kelly
2010-11-26 18:15         ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-11-26  3:08   ` Charles Cave

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