Re: Re: How to add entries to an org file, not diary

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 6, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>
>> Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>> If I'm visting an agenda (C-c a a) buffer, and want to add a diary
>>> entry
>>> for a particular day, I can use org-agenda-diary-entry, bound to 'i'.
>>> This inserts an entry in my diary file.
>>>
>>> What I'd like to do is add the entry instead to an org file,
>>> e.g. 'agenda.org' where I currently store all diary-like entries.  Is
>>> that functionality available?  (Am trying to wean myself off diary
>>> files, after many years of using it...)
>>>
>>> Thanks, Stephen
>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> I agree that would be a nice feature.  I stopped using the diary a few
>> years ago and have totally avoided the 'i' functions in the agenda
>> since
>> it creates diary entries that just get lost for me.  Instead I've
>> trained by fingers to make remember tasks instead but I have to create
>> the dates manually in the remember task.
>>
>> It would be a lot nicer if this could create a task with a diary sexp
>> type entry for the details.
>
> Why diary sexp entries and not direct Org time stamp
> entries?  Is there a consensus that diary sexps should
> be use for this application?

Actually the diary sexp isn't really important.  I used to make block
entries spanning multiple days with the old diary entries and was just
thinking that diary sexp entries are needed to do that - but for single
dates and times org timestamp entries are fine.

-Bernt