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From: Lawrence Bottorff <galaxybeinglambda@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Timestamp practices?
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:30:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOPJoVozo0DDUTSEGhuv3vYxCKxxQk3WJbsZaO9RC0M0HeNZOw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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I'm trying to give each header entry a timestamp. To do this I create a
drawer like this:

:PROPERTIES:
:CUSTOM_ID: [2013-03-19 Tue 14:26]
:END:

Initially, I do C-u M-x org-insert-drawer. This gives me

:PROPERTIES:

:END:

Then I do C-c C-x p and choose CUSTOM-ID. Then I insert a timestamp. Here's
what it looks like (expanded):

** Links
*** [[http://www.neo4j.org/][The World's Leading Graph Database]]
:PROPERTIES:
:CUSTOM_ID: [2013-03-19 Tue 14:26]
:END:

*** [[http://www.manning.com/carlson/][Redis: NoSQL; key-value; in-memory]]
:PROPERTIES:
:CUSTOM_ID: [2013-03-19 Tue 19:34]
:END:

**** [[
http://justinsboringpage.blogspot.com/2011/07/eredis-redis-client-in-emacs-lisp.html][eredis:
a Redis client in emacs lisp]]
:PROPERTIES:
:CUSTOM_ID: [2013-03-19 Tue 19:42]
:END:

I'd like to know the best practice for adding such timestamps. Am I gaining
anything by enclosing the timestamp in such an elaborate drawer? Are these
two commands the best way to do this? Or is there a more automated approach?

In general, I can't help but marvel at the ad-hoc, on-the-fly data
management possibilities org-mode offers. It seems like the sky's the
limit. But I'd like opinions on whether I'm stumbling along a blind alley.

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next             reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-20 14:30 Lawrence Bottorff [this message]
2013-03-20 14:39 ` Timestamp practices? Bastien
2013-03-20 15:13 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-03-21 10:15   ` Samuel Loury

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