Hi, How about using Org-Capture [1] for this? You can have an entry like this on your templates: ("l" "Logbook" entry (file+datetree "~/org/logbook.org") "* %?\nEntered on %U %i\n")) which would add an entry at the logbook.org file, under a date-time tree, using the current date. Cheers, Georgios [1]: https://orgmode.org/manual/Capture-templates.html#Capture-templates On 26/03/2019 23:05, Samuel Wales wrote: > example of commandeering that mechanism would be to create notes in this format: > > ***** CONVERSATION [2019-03-26 Tue 15:05] what is in rice noodles > > > On 3/26/19, Samuel Wales wrote: >> nothing is built into org for this. >> >> you would have to define the mapping from the entry to the logbook. >> or you could specify one entry to be your global logbook. >> >> you might be thinking of >> >> org-default-notes-file is a variable defined in `org.el'. >> Original value was "~/.notes" >> >> that is unrelated to logbook. however, you could commandeer that >> mechanism if you wanted. >> >> the word notes is used ambiguously. >> >> >> On 3/26/19, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: >>> So I can add a logbook entry to my org file with C-c C-z and it goes into >>> a >>> logbook drawer on that file. Is there a way to associate that entry with >>> an >>> external file? That is, can I have all logbook entries automatically be >>> written to, say, a logbook.org file. Or, is there a quick way to simply >>> tangle out all logbook entries? >>> >>> Isn't there something similar with a notes.org file? >>> >>> LB >>> >> >> >> -- >> The Kafka Pandemic >> >> What is misopathy? >> https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html >> >> The disease DOES progress. MANY people have died from it. And ANYBODY >> can get it at any time. >> > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Georgios Kaklamanos Doctoral Student, e-Science Group, GWDG mailto: georgios.kaklamanos@gwdg.de Telefon: 0551 201-26803 ------------------------------------------------------------------ GWDG - Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany WWW: www.gwdg.de mailto: gwdg@gwdg.de Phone: +49 (0) 551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0) 551 201-2150 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Christian Griesinger Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Zertifiziert nach ISO 9001 ------------------------------------------------------------------