Loosing tasks with remember

Loosing tasks with remember

[Christian Zang]

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!

Best,
Christian

Re: Loosing tasks with remember

[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

Re: Loosing tasks with remember

[Christian Zang]

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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Re: Re: Loosing tasks with remember

[Samuel Wales]

My alternate remember suggestion from a while back avoids lost data,
for what it's worth.  So if it is implemented as an alternate, you can
try it.

On 2010-04-13, Christian Zang <christian.zang@fh-weihenstephan.de> wrote:
> 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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>
>
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