From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philip Rooke Subject: Re: A remember/notepad add on to org-mode Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:33:44 +0000 Message-ID: <87lkvedo7b.fsf@sarge.yax.org.uk> References: <44137153.9060001@optusnet.com.au> <893e551ad06743bebecfd9e7514caf4d@science.uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: To: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org List-Id: emacs-orgmode.gnu.org Carsten Dominik writes: > This feels to me like a short version of what remember does. I am not quite sure that it is, primarily because I do not think there is a way to customise the format of the headline that is inserted to give the style of entry that Charles wants. > Why don't you just use remember for this and get a link back to where you > were when you decided to make this entry? For a while I did use the org-remember way of jotting notes but in the end gave up as it didn't seem to save me much time. For example: 1. Typically the headlines in my "journal" are of the form * [2006-02-24 Fri 11:14] Something I have just thought of... I almost always use C-u C-c ! to produce that style of time stamp, which I like and which is consistent with the other active and inactive time stamps in my org files. Unfortunately the remember function just uses current-time-string if it is automatically creating the headline which isn't really what I want. If I enter the headline directly in the remember buffer (by starting with a *) then I have to manually create the time stamp or bind org-time-stamp-inactive to a key or some such thing and I have not gained much. 2. Similarly, I couldn't come up with a neat way to enter a scheduled/deadline TODO item through this method. If for example I enter: ------ TODO Something needs to be done ------ in the remember buffer it ends up as an entry like: ** Mon Mar 13 09:50:23 2006 (TODO Something needs to be done) TODO Something needs to be done I then found myself editing this in order to turn it into a recognised TODO entry and also to delete the repeated text that I didn't want. That really negated the speed of using the function in the first place. I don't suppose though that it is easy to generalise what people might want the remember function to do. Personally I think I would find something like the following useful. 1. Enter plain text like ------ Something interesting I have just thought of... Blah, blah ------ in the remember buffer and get an entry like ------ ** [2006-02-24 Fri 11:14] Something interesting I have just thought of... Blah, blah ------ in my notes file. 2. Enter text with some keyword in the remember buffer e.g. ------ TODO Something I really must do ------ and get an entry like ------ ** TODO Something I really must do DEADLINE: <2006-03-13 Mon 10:27> ------ Regards, Phil