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.
>
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