On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Ian Barton
<lists@manor-farm.org> wrote:
T o n g wrote:
Hi,
I found people are using org-mode for diary writing in recent mlist archive, but wasn't able to find such tutorials.
Anyone can enlighten me with such tutorial, which is for org-mode newbies and focusing on how to make most use of applicable org-mode features, and maybe a bonus "best-practice diary writing with org-mode"?
("Journal" ?j "* %^U :journal:\n\n** %^{Prompt} %i%&\n %!" "~/Documents/org/journal/journal_2009.org")
This stores entries as a headline under the date so an entry will look like:
* [2009-11-15 Sun] :journal:
** Ironbridge Gorge.
Your text goes here.
This doesn't attempt to avoid duplicate date entries from calling the template twice. If I have already created an entry for that day I simply open my journal file and append stuff under that heading.
At the end of each month I create a month heading and move each day under it, like:
* 2009-08 August
** [2009-08-31 Mon]
Fetched More Logs from the Wood.
I keep each year in a separate file. I could make this much more automated, but it's just as easy to do it manually.
You might also want to see my recent message "[Orgmode] org-datetree Some Suggestions". Carsten has recently introduced the datetree directive in remember templates, which should be very useful for automated diary entries.
Ian.