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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Alexander <alejck@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-mode remember and plain text backend
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:17:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <897C4FD2-70E6-4083-9C4B-1C60BECD981F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e177a690904011440j1a1aacf7g9bf03d9339b6c700@mail.gmail.com>


On Apr 1, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Alexander wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for org-mode. I've tried any number of organization tools and
> org-mode just might be the one...
>
> I just switched to emacs (because of org-mode) from another well-known
> editor, and I'm trying to take baby steps. What I would like to be
> able to do is to have a remember template that allows me to write a
> remind reminder to my reminders file.

This was part of James TD Smith's plan for rewriting the
org/remember code, but I do not know what the status of this is.

Currently, org/remember can only write to Org files.

What you could do is write your own remember handler and make sure
that it is in the hook before org-remember-handler.

- Carsten

>
> I realize that there is a script to translate org-mode to remind, and
> that there is an emacs-based solution, but for now I just want to be
> able to quickly write to my remind file. I've figured out that there
> are different backends to remember, but can I use these with
> org-remember?
>
> I can't get the org-remember template to write to a non-org-mode file.
>
> these are my settings:
>
> ;; For remember
> (org-remember-insinuate)
> (setq org-directory "~/start/admin/org/")
> (setq org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory "/tasks.org"))
> (define-key global-map "\C-\M-r" 'org-remember)
>
> (setq org-remember-templates
>      '(("Task" ?t "* TODO %? %i\n" nil "Tasks")
> 	("Idea" ?i "* %^{Title}\n %i\n %t" "ideas.org" "Ideas")
>    	("Reading" ?r "* TODO %? %i\n %a" "readings.org" "Readings")
> 	("Reminder" ?m "REM %^t AT %^{Time} DURATION %^{Duration} MSG %i\n"
> "~/start/code/dotfiles/.reminders")
> ))
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alexander
>
>
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2009-04-01 21:40 org-mode remember and plain text backend Alexander
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