From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Philip Rooke <phil@yax.org.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: datetree capture from agenda [7.5 (release_7.5.135.g7021f.dirty)]
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:09:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E5E83397-2608-43FF-A68A-E738FDB04B1E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2aag3ai76.fsf@bo.sak.lan>
On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Philip Rooke wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Thanks Carsten,
>
>> I can see that it might be nice to simply add some text
>> under the date headline in a date tree, in order to build
>> up a long journal entry from little snippets.
>
> Yes, this is exactly what I do over the course of the day and I find it
> very useful. The trouble I run into is that, all too often, I forget or
> don't have time to add an entry on the day the noteworthy event
> happened. I use the agenda capture action (k c) in this situation since
> the date I am on in the agenda is picked up automatically by the
> template and the right date headline is created at the right place in
> the journal. Currently I have to then cut/paste the note, which is the
> bit I was trying to avoid.
>
>> However, you are trying to *mix* headline entries and plain entries
>> under the same date node in the tree, and this seems to be impossible.
>
> Sorry, my fault, the full version of journal template I currently use
> ends up creating entries like:
>
> *** 2011-04-06 Wednesday
>
> Try and clarify journal/note taking use case for Carsten
> [2011-04-06 Wed 10:03]
>
> Apologise for confusing Carsten as I don't actually use headline
> entries in the journal, plain only
> [2011-04-06 Wed 10:05]
>
>> Wouldn't a better strategy be to have the "plain" section be started with a time,
>
> Well, as you see above I actually do like to have the time of the entry,
> but the only way I thought I could do that was using the %U keyword in
> the template (which is clumsy as it then duplicates the date/day).
>
>>
>> (the %<%H:%M> requires the current git release...)
>
> ... which, coincidently, seems to have appeared this morning :-)
Yes, but even before that you could have done
%(format-time-string "%H:%M")
Cheers
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-06 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-05 21:50 Bug: datetree capture from agenda [7.5 (release_7.5.135.g7021f.dirty)] Philip Rooke
2011-04-06 6:52 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-04-06 10:50 ` Philip Rooke
2011-04-06 11:06 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-04-06 11:09 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2011-04-07 15:05 ` Carsten Dominik
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