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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature idea: show last log entry
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:55:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwixbtgp.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2pqi2tffg.fsf@boostpro.com> (Dave Abrahams's message of "Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:09:23 -0400")

Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> Generally I'm interested in keeping log entries for my Org items for
> historical purposes only (so I like to stash them away in a :LOGBOOK:
> drawer), but on a day-to-day basis I'm interested in the very latest log
> entry; it tells me about the status of the item.  For example, if I've
> made a task DELEGATED, the latest log entry usually has the person I've
> delegated it to and often a link to the mail message in which I did the
> delegation.  So I'd like a feature that would leave the latest log entry
> outside the drawer, and always file the previous log entry into the
> drawer when I make a new one.
>
> Thoughts?

I log stuff in :LOGBOOK: with the items reversed so the newest is always
on top.

SPC on a task in the agenda opens the task including the drawer so I can
see the details for any given task.

HTH,
Bernt

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-13  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-12 15:09 Feature idea: show last log entry Dave Abrahams
2011-10-12 17:59 ` Achim Gratz
2011-10-23 19:44   ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-13  0:55 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2011-10-13  6:56   ` John Wiegley
2011-10-13 11:49     ` Bernt Hansen
2011-10-13 12:02       ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-10-23 19:59   ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-23 20:37     ` Bernt Hansen
2011-10-23 22:18       ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-23 22:45         ` Bernt Hansen

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