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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Re: How to add entries to an org file, not diary
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:28:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vkagpf8.fsf@gimli.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FEFDC685-1AE2-4E62-9F48-DF02B0BAAA59@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Sat\, 7 Nov 2009 08\:02\:12 +0100")

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

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-07 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-06 15:16 How to add entries to an org file, not diary Stephen Eglen
2009-11-06 17:02 ` Matt Lundin
2009-11-07  7:04   ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-06 17:21 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-11-07  7:02   ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-07 18:28     ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2009-11-09 21:09 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-09 21:39   ` Bernt Hansen
2009-11-09 21:45     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-10  1:57   ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2009-11-10  5:51     ` Alan E. Davis
2009-11-10  7:23     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-10 14:28       ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira

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