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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: A remember/notepad add on to org-mode
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:11:32 +0100
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This feels to me like a short version of what remember does.  So 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?

- Carsten

On Mar 12, 2006, at 1:54, Charles Cave wrote:

> Before I discovered org-mode (and Remember Mode)
> I had a small customisation in my .emacs file to open
> a "Journal file", go to the end of the file, insert the data
> and time, then allow me to enter a note. I would save the buffer
> and close it.
>
> Now that I am using org-mode, I made some modifications
> to write my notes to a file "journal.org" and bind a
> key combination to invoke the function.
>
> So when I am using Emacs I can quickly write notes by
> entering the command C-c n
>
> I use GNU Emacs 21.3.1 running on Windows XP
>
> Maybe this functionality could be added to org-mode?
>
>
> Here are the lines from .emacs
>
> (defun journal ()
>   (interactive)
>   ; customise the following line for your file name
>   (find-file "c:/homes/charles/journal.org")
>   (end-of-buffer)
>   (insert "\n** Topic: ")
>   (insert-datetime-string)
>   (insert "\n")
> )
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-c n") 'journal)
>
> (defun insert-datetime-string ()
>   "Insert a nicely formated date time string."
>   (interactive)
>   (insert (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d %a %H:%M" ))
> )
>
>
>
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