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From: Christian Zang <christian.zang@fh-weihenstephan.de>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: Christian Zang <christian.zang@fh-weihenstephan.de>,
	emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Loosing tasks with remember
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:18:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <330B0A90-5930-462A-B031-47A10CF26576@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sk6yhk6w.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>

Thanks, Bernt,

ok, invoking remember a couple of times in sequence is what I wanted to avoid in the first place, but  refiling a complete tree is a good idea and might work for my purposes.

Cheers,
Christian

Am 14.04.2010 um 03:55 schrieb Bernt Hansen:

> Christian Zang <christian.zang@fh-weihenstephan.de> writes:
> 
>> Dear org-enthusiasts,
>> 
>> I have a remember template to file away quick notes and todos that looks like
>> 
>> (setq org-remember-templates
>>      '(("Todo" ?t "*** TODO %?\n %i\n" "~/Org/inbox.org" "Inbox")))
>> 
>> When a invoke a remember buffer and write something like
>> 
>> *** TODO Task 1
>> 
>> *** TODO Task 2
>> 
>> and file it away in my inbox.org file using C-c C-c everything is fine, but when I choose a different headline (level 2) via C-1 C-c C-c, only the first of the two tasks will get filed under the chosen headline, the other one disappears.
>> 
>> Is this the intended behaviour? Or am I overlooking an important variable, or lies the problem in my template? If so, what can I do to change my setup, so that every task will get filed under the chosen headline?
>> 
>> I am using the latest org-mode (pulled from git 10 min ago) with emacs 23.1 on Mac OS X 10.6. 
>> 
>> Thanks!
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
> Yes this is intended behaviour (sort of).  Remember mode is designed for
> one task three per filing operation.  I think it files multiple tasks in
> the default save configuration but if you file to a target only the
> first task is filed.
> 
> To work around this I would either invoke remember multiple times, one
> for each task or provide a parent task to hold your multiple TODO
> entries like this
> 
> * TODO refile task
> ** TODO Task 1
> ** TODO Task 2
> 
> then you refile the entire tree to the target destination.
> 
> HTH,
> Bernt
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-14  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-13 19:13 Loosing tasks with remember Christian Zang
2010-04-14  1:55 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-04-14  5:18   ` Christian Zang [this message]
2010-04-18  3:33     ` Samuel Wales

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