Re: Allowing multiple date trees in a single file

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>]

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On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 6:50 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:
>
> > Another way to implement this would be to use different VALUES for the
> > DATE_TREE/WEEK_TREE property - maybe that would actually be a somewhat
> > cleaner implementation.
>
> I think ":DATE_TREE: week" ":DATE_TREE: t" is cleaner, indeed.
>

This is not quite what I meant.

I meant

:DATE_TREE: my_diary
:DATE_TREE: food_and_health
:DATE_TREE: movies watched


>
> > I'll rethink that and I will also define a test.
>
> I also agree there's an opportunity to refactor this and come out with
> a more generic interface.
>
> Yet another option is to define new capture targets, e.g.
>
>  - file+datetree+olp
>  - file+datetree+olp+date
>  - file+datetree+regexp
>  - file+datetree+regexp+date
>  - ...
>  - file+weektree+olp
>  - ...
>
> Those would ignore WEEK_TREE and DATE_TREE properties altogether.
>

Yes, one could have additional ways - but I am not going to take out the
existing ones, which would needlessly break things with various users.

Another thing I was thinking is a way to force prompting for a date, for
example through a prefix argument, so that a single capture template could
be used for using the current date and optionally a set one.

Carsten


>
> Regards,
>
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>

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