From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: GTD: Solving the bottleneck of converting incoming mails to NEXT actions Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:34:20 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87myva7vqb.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87k5qeoild.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IaEIm-0005Qm-UB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:34:28 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IaEIk-0005PB-UC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:34:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IaEIk-0005P1-OA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:34:26 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.187]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IaEIk-0003nG-BJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:34:26 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c27so1675678rvf for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:34:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Georg C. F. Greve" Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:08, Georg C. F. Greve wrote: > Hi Bastien, > > thanks a lot for your help, very useful: > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:44:30 +0200 > Bastien wrote: > > b> Please > > b> 1. append an ".org" extension to your file > b> 2. restart your config > b> 3. test and report again > > When following steps 2 and 3, I get > > "byte-code: Target files for remember notes must be in Org-mode" > > and when making "~/Tools/Org/E.org" the default file name, things seem > to work fine with the one exception that instead of creating the > heading > that was specified as default, it creates a "* Notes" heading. This > makes no sense, imho. If a heading is created, why not creat the > default? > > On changing the file names, I wanted to avoid that, because the file > names are used in generating the agenda, and I don't want to lose four > characters in the compact view. Also it is generally unnecessary in > terms of using Org mode, as Emacs can also identify files by content, > e.g. my Email file says > > "Georg's Email TODO Org File -*- mode: org; -*-" > > So I consider that necessity a bug. It is not necessary to rename the file - if you file comes up in org-mode when you open it in Emacs, everything is fine. The fact that you get this error means that the file Org-mode is visiting on order to store the note is *not* in org-mode. > The user has explicitly specified > that this is an Org file, remember should not consider itself smarter > than the user and insist on the file name extension. > > Here is what I think should be done: > > a) use the default heading name specified by the user for > auto-creation, instead of "Notes". Yes. - Carsten