From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Husain Alshehhi <husain@alshehhi.io>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding Quick Notes in Org-mode Agenda View Inserts then In Drawer in Reverse Order
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:15:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8vkY_X3=rVTe7B_ath=bQDMSBxeoLKo2Hd66_Ri3fQj1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <r50r8fwnto5mgf.fsf@38f9d365627a.ant.amazon.com>
there is a variable that controls sequence of notes.
one trick would be to go to the entry and keep notes as entries below them:
* x
** LOG [2021-03-30 Tue 15:13] hi
** some stuff about x
On 3/30/21, Husain Alshehhi <husain@alshehhi.io> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I use org-agenda frequently for getting an overview of my work. I
> clock-in when I start working on something. I often find myself needing
> to add a note to the task I am working on. To do that from the Agenda
> view, I run org-agenda-add-note. I add typical notes like what my
> findings are, anything I did related to the task, but it is nothing
> related to notes about why the task changed status (at least not always).
>
> However, I do have in my config
>
> (setq org-log-into-drawer t)
>
> which should add clocking into my LOGBOOK drawer by default. I
> discovered however that org-mode adds my notes in the LOGBOOK drawer. I
> am not sure why, but it appears that these notes are considered "status
> notes" (?) and thus by org-log-into-drawer documentation are logged into
> the drawer. I am not certain if this is correct.
>
> This setup, works fine except for two cases:
>
> a. When I want to export my notes to HTML, exporters will ignore the
> LOGBOOK, and I would like to export my notes.
> b. Notes are ordered in reverse: newer notes are put first.
>
> Because of this behavior, I suspect that I am hijacking the notion of
> "status change notes" and using them as notes.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. Am I using the notes correctly in org?
> 2. If not, what is equivalence of adding quick notes into a task
> (ideally, with time stamp of sort)?
> 3. If yes, then how can I work around the limitations (a) and (b)?
>
> --
> Husain Alshehhi
>
>
>
--
The Kafka Pandemic
Please learn what misopathy is.
https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-30 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-30 22:03 Adding Quick Notes in Org-mode Agenda View Inserts then In Drawer in Reverse Order Husain Alshehhi
2021-03-30 22:15 ` Samuel Wales [this message]
2021-03-30 22:16 ` Samuel Wales
2021-03-30 23:28 ` Tim Cross
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-03-29 22:20 Husain Alshehhi
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.orgmode.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CAJcAo8vkY_X3=rVTe7B_ath=bQDMSBxeoLKo2Hd66_Ri3fQj1Q@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=samologist@gmail.com \
--cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
--cc=husain@alshehhi.io \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).