Re: Re: Suggest a new feature for org-remember-templates

From: "Eddward DeVilla" <eddward@gmail.com>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Suggest a new feature for org-remember-templates
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:51:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b71b18520701151251i7a34a096w365b5af8e33db724@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2slec9kn9.fsf@sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk>

To be honest, what you are suggesting sounds interesting, but I don't
know remember well enough to know if it does what it sounds like.

It would be nice to have a 'hot-key' interface to generate a project
tree.  I've looked a little at form and template packages for emacs to
see if any look like they'd let me easily create a template to
generate a basic "Project Tree" for my org files.

For now, I have a template in each org file that I cut and paste and
then fill in when I need to 'create' a new project.  At some point I'd
like to come up with a command that would prompt me for the heading,
an initial status/description, a category and other option info
(deadline, priority, todo-state) and use that to insert a project tree
into the correct org file (I have one per category) with the supplied
heading, the description under the status subheading I maintain with
the current data (inactive) before it, and with the other info where I
want it.  I admit this is very specific to how I do things and I
haven't read GTD so it probably isn't how others would want it.

It sounds like what you are suggesting might be able to so some of
that, though I think what I'm suggesting might be over the top or an
abuse of remember.

I guess I'm looking at various trees as data types in a duck-typing
sense.  (If it's in the right place and has the right shape, it's a
duck.)  It would be nice to easily define constructors for those
types.  It's a style thing for me, but I'd also like to be able to
describe my ducks in my org files rather than my .emacs files since
that's where I line up my ducks.  I don't know how to do it yet, I'm
not sure how to generalize it and given my skill with copy and yank I
can't say it essential.  Just a nice idea.

Edd

On 1/15/07, Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2007-01-15, Bastien said:
>
> > Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> After playing with the %-escapes, I found it useful to make them
> >> support certain modifiers.
> >>
> >> What do people think? Any other suggestions?
> >
> > Your email made me play with org-remember-templates a bit and they're
> > quite powerful.  What you propose makes perfect sense to me.
> >
> > For now i'm just using `remember' to take some random notes, those
> > that I don't need to link to any project immediately.  If we had the
> > interactive `remember' you describe, i think it will become a core
> > fonction that will help adding TODO items to *any* org files on the
> > fly.  Could be great!
>
> This is actually the feature make me make up my mind to migrate from
> planner to org.
>
> But the feature I propose is not important anymore. Since the
> *remember* buffer is in org-mode, we can use the normal org key
> bindings to set timestamps.
>
> However I still feel there is room for improvement to make remember
> the input engine for GTD etc. ;)
>
> --
> Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)
>
>
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