From: Philip Rooke <phil@yax.org.uk>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: datetree capture from agenda [7.5 (release_7.5.135.g7021f.dirty)]
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:50:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2aag3ai76.fsf@bo.sak.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92753333-331E-45C6-A375-53D81FDBC644@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Wed, 6 Apr 2011 08:52:51 +0200")
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 :-)
That means I can use something like:
(setq org-capture-templates
'(("e" "Journal entry" entry (file+datetree "/tmp/journal.org")
"* %<%H:%M>\n %?")
("l" "Journal late entry" entry (file+datetree "/tmp/journal.org")
"* Retrospectively added %<%Y-%m-%d %H:%M>\n %?")))
Used from an agenda action the retrospective date headline/notes are
created and filed in the right place, giving something like:
* 2011
** 2011-04 April
*** 2011-04-05 Tuesday
**** Retrospectively added 2011-04-06 11:35
Checked with Bastien about committing doc string changes
*** 2011-04-06 Wednesday
**** 11:33
Updated Org to latest version in order to get new capture keyword
expansion capability
**** 11:36
Problem solved. Brilliant, that works. Carsten never ceases to
amaze...
Thank you.
Phil
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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 [this message]
2011-04-06 11:06 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-04-06 11:09 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-04-07 15:05 ` Carsten Dominik
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