From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Elston Subject: Automatic Update of Org files Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:03:38 -0800 Message-ID: <498B623A.4080000@advantest-ard.com> Reply-To: m.elston@advantest-ard.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVCKK-0005Od-5F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:04:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVCKH-0005OO-PP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:04:03 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44833 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVCKH-0005OK-Kl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:04:01 -0500 Received: from [192.84.20.196] (port=4008 helo=mailhub.ardeng.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVCKG-000268-Ug for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:04:01 -0500 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: Org Mode List Its amazing what you can do with this package! I have weekly meetings I attend where we take a look at different sources of status information. We have an action item list in an Excel file, an issue tracking list in Test Track (from Seapine Software) and a project schedule in Microsoft Project. I decided I didn't like looking in three (or sometimes more) different files to collect the tasks I (and my group) had coming up so I wrote a Perl script to query those sources and write the results into different Org files. It all works great and now C-c a a reads these files and prints any upcoming deadlines from these tasks in my agenda. What a terrific way to keep track of assigned tasks. There is a drawback, however. Once these files are created I would like to add notes to them and have these notes persist. Unfortunately, right now I don't have any way of doing this as these files get overwritten when I run my Perl script again. So, does anyone have any ideas about how to go about a task like this? Is there some way to, for example, write information to a 'temporary' Org file and "merge" the info? I would not want to write this in Perl and I don't know elisp well enough to try anything like this that way either. Perhaps I am looking for too much. But I have gotten spoiled with such a great package. Mark