From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Allowing multiple date trees in a single file
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:57:39 +0100 [thread overview]
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Hi Samuel,
Yes, this is of course also a very good solution that avoids the
overhead of a date tree. One of the reasons why the dates
in Org are in ISO format was to make them sortable by
a simple text sort. Thanks for sharing.
Carsten
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> as an aside, just wanted to point out an alternative that i use
> exclusively instead of date trees. of course it is not for everybody
> and i do not want to hijack the thread, so followups should have a
> different header.
>
> ***** CONVERSATION [2017-01-15 Sun 14:09] talked with carsten
>
> i sort these in the outline. they are always visible at the bottom of
> every subtree, in time order. i can follow a thread by just reading
> the headers. i can quickly do a binary search to find a date. i can
> select a region without selecting parents. they show up nicely in the
> agenda. i sort them in the agenda also. links to them work fine.
> the date information i need is there without changing visibility, yet
> unobtrusive.
>
> it might sound silly to bring it up, but everybody i have told to this
> has had an aha moment and been enthusiastic.
>
> just as an aside.
>
> --
> The Kafka Pandemic: http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com
>
> The disease DOES progress. MANY people have died from it. And
> ANYBODY can get it.
>
> Denmark: free Karina Hansen NOW.
> UPDATE 2016-10: home, but not fully free
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-19 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-15 16:46 Allowing multiple date trees in a single file Carsten Dominik
2017-01-16 7:45 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-01-17 12:19 ` Carsten Dominik
2017-01-17 17:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-01-18 5:53 ` Carsten Dominik
2017-01-18 11:23 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-02-03 14:08 ` Carsten Dominik
2017-02-04 12:48 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-02-05 10:40 ` Carsten Dominik
2017-02-06 13:06 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-01-18 20:19 ` Samuel Wales
2017-01-19 12:57 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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