* Display only latest sub notes in agenda
@ 2014-06-06 14:27 Steffen Heilmann
2014-06-15 19:54 ` Sacha Chua
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From: Steffen Heilmann @ 2014-06-06 14:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Dear all,
thank you very much for the very helpful org-mode! I have been using it extensively during my studies and it saved me a great deal of trouble and time.
Now I want to use org-mode to organize / manage my networking contacts. I will have a top-level (*) entry for every person, and underneath for each meeting a (**) sub level entry with a time stamp.
I am looking for an easy way to see when I had the last interaction with everybody (preferably sorted by date). I want to use this to quickly see whom I have not contacted for some time and then can reach-out to them.
I have asked Sacha Chua for advice, she mentioned that it might be possible to use org-map-entries to go through the level 2 subtrees and update a LASTMEETING property on the parent, and then use org columns).
As I am not really firm with Lisp programming, I was wondering if somebody had done something similar before that he could share. Or alternatively if somebody could give me some help with writing the code. I guess all of this can be done very quickly if you know how to do so.
Thank you very much,
Steffen
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* Re: Display only latest sub notes in agenda
2014-06-06 14:27 Display only latest sub notes in agenda Steffen Heilmann
@ 2014-06-15 19:54 ` Sacha Chua
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From: Sacha Chua @ 2014-06-15 19:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Steffen Heilmann <heilmann.steffen@gmail.com> writes:
Hello, Steffen, all!
> I am looking for an easy way to see when I had the last interaction
> with everybody (preferably sorted by date). I want to use this to
> quickly see whom I have not contacted for some time and then can
> reach-out to them.
Something like this, maybe?
(defun sacha/org-update-with-last-meeting ()
(interactive)
(goto-char (point-max))
(let (last-meeting)
(while (re-search-backward
(concat "\\(" org-outline-regexp "\\)\\|\\("
org-maybe-keyword-time-regexp "\\)") nil t)
(cond
((and (match-string 1)
(= (nth 1 (save-match-data (org-heading-components))) 1)
last-meeting)
;; heading
(save-excursion (org-set-property "LASTMEETING" last-meeting))
(setq last-meeting nil))
((and (match-string 2))
(if (or (null last-meeting) (string< last-meeting (match-string 2)))
(setq last-meeting (match-string 2))))))))
It turns:
* John Smith
** DONE Conversation
[2014-01-20]
** DONE E-mail
[2014-01-15]
* Jane Smith
** DONE Conversation
[2014-01-07]
into:
* John Smith
:PROPERTIES:
:LASTMEETING: [2014-01-20]
:END:
** DONE E-mail
[2014-01-15]
** DONE Conversation
[2014-01-20]
* Someone without a meeting
* Jane Smith
:PROPERTIES:
:LASTMEETING: [2014-01-07]
:END:
** DONE Conversation
[2014-01-07]
You can then use something like:
#+COLUMNS: %25ITEM %LASTMEETING %TAGS %PRIORITY %TODO
#+BEGIN: columnview :maxlevel 1
| ITEM | LASTMEETING | TAGS | PRIORITY | TODO |
|-----------------------------+--------------+------+----------+------|
| * John Smith | [2014-01-20] | | | |
| * Someone without a meeting | | | | |
| * Jane Smith | <2014-01-07> | | | |
#+END:
or even sort the entries by the LASTMEETING property (R will
reverse-sort by property).
Sacha
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* Re: Display only latest sub notes in agenda
@ 2014-06-22 20:28 Steffen Heilmann
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From: Steffen Heilmann @ 2014-06-22 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Dear Sacha,
thanks for the very helpful code! Does exactly what I was looking for.
I have one additional question: At the moment the code also picks-up any dates that are in the body of the structure (this includes deadlines etc). How would I need to modify the code to only look at dates that actually are given in the headlines (*, ** or ***)? I tried to change the code myself but realized that the regexp was more complicated than I thought and did not get the modified code to work.
Thank you,
Steffen
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