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From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: using dates as property?
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:02:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2si6zn2jh.fsf@vpn-128-237-146-144.library.vpn.cmu.edu> (raw)

Hi,

I am making a historical list of seminar speakers in an org-file. I am
trying to figure out the best way to store the dates so I can do
something later like find speakers from 2010, or to sort the speakers by
date etc...

Here is an example of my current thoughts. My questions are:

1. are org-timestamps the right approach?
2. are they better in the headline (where they are more easily read) or
as a property?
3. In either case, is there an easy way to search/sort them?

**  Some Person
   :PROPERTIES:
   :FIRSTNAME: Some
   :LASTNAME: Person
   :EMAIL:    some.person@someplace.edu
   :URL:      http://some.place.edu/some-person
   :END:
*** [2010-02-02 Tue] Title....
    :PROPERTIES:
    :DATE:     [2010-02-02 Tue]
    :END:
*** [2015-09-01 Tue] Title...
    :PROPERTIES:
    :DATE:     [2015-09-01 Tue]
    :END:

Thanks!

--
Professor John Kitchin
Doherty Hall A207F
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-7803
@johnkitchin
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu

next             reply	other threads:[~2015-08-31 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-31 11:02 John Kitchin [this message]
2015-08-31 21:43 ` using dates as property? Samuel Wales
2015-08-31 21:49   ` Samuel Wales
2015-08-31 21:52     ` Samuel Wales
2015-09-05  0:31   ` John Kitchin

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