Re: Where to put dates on meeting headlines

[Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>]

I place an active timestamp under my headline for the date/time of the
meeting, and then I always timestamp my notes using inactive
timestamps. They are separate in the agenda but can be enabled.


On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 11:45:51AM -0500, John Kitchin wrote:
> Searching for timestamps is not the issue, it is finding the right time
> stamp associated with a headline.  For example, suppose in the meeting
> notes I use time stamps to note past or future events, then a headline
> could have many time stamps, and only one is related to the date of the
> meeting.   Also, if you have logging on, when you mark the
> meeting done, it will insert an inactive timestamp of when you closed it.
>
> What I want to search for is a headline with a meeting tag, and a
> timestamp on a particular day (even better if a range is possible since
> I have conferences that are spread over a week for example). I might use
> this, for example, at the end of the year to find all the scientific
> conferences I had attended to put in an annual report, or all the
> committee meetings, etc.
>
> I guess the canonical place is probably the deadline, since after that
> time the meeting should be "done". Then I can generate an agenda with a
> query like this for meetings in the last two months:
>
> meeting+DEADLINE>="<-2m>"
>
> Since I had to search for how to do this (probably again ;), here is a
> PSA on where to find how to do these searches:
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Charles C. Berry writes:
>
> > On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, John Kitchin wrote:
> >
> >> Suppose I use a heading to store notes on a meeting.
> >>
> >> Is there a canonical location to put a date so I could search for them
> >> later?
> >>
> >> It seems like the date is not a deadline, or scheduled timestamp.  I
> >> could see putting the date in the headline, but then I do not see an
> >> obvious way to search for meetings that occurred in a time range.
> >> Putting the date in the body is another location, but then I do not know
> >> how it might be searched again.
> >>
> >> Another option is a property, which might be searchable at least with a
> >> function.
> >>
> >> What do you do along these lines?
> >>
> >> Here is a simple example of a headline I might have, and later I might
> >> want a report of all meetings in the month of February.
> >>
> >> * Group meeting <2017-02-24 Fri> :meeting:
> >>
> >
> > That is a timestamp, albeit one with `:hour-start nil :minute-start nil'.
> >
> > Isn't this good enough to search with?
> >
> > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> >    (org-element-map
> >        (org-element-parse-buffer) 'timestamp
> >      (lambda(x)
> >        (let
> >  	  ((beg (org-element-property :begin x))
> >  	   (month (org-element-property :month-start x))
> >  	   (year (org-element-property :year-start x)))
> >  	(format "Year %s Month %s Where %s" year month beg))))
> > #+END_SRC
> >
> >
> > #+RESULTS:
> > | Year 2017 Month 2 Where 18 |
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Chuck
>
>
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