Re: Bug: datetree capture from agenda [7.5 (release_7.5.135.g7021f.dirty)]

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Philip Rooke wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Thanks Carsten,
> 
>> I can see that it might be nice to simply add some text
>> under the date headline in a date tree, in order to build
>> up a long journal entry from little snippets.
> 
> Yes, this is exactly what I do over the course of the day and I find it
> very useful.  The trouble I run into is that, all too often, I forget or
> don't have time to add an entry on the day the noteworthy event
> happened.  I use the agenda capture action (k c) in this situation since
> the date I am on in the agenda is picked up automatically by the
> template and the right date headline is created at the right place in
> the journal.  Currently I have to then cut/paste the note, which is the
> bit I was trying to avoid.
> 
>> However, you are trying to *mix* headline entries and plain entries
>> under the same date node in the tree, and this seems to be impossible.
> 
> Sorry, my fault, the full version of journal template I currently use
> ends up creating entries like:
> 
> *** 2011-04-06 Wednesday
> 
>    Try and clarify journal/note taking use case for Carsten
>    [2011-04-06 Wed 10:03]
> 
>    Apologise for confusing Carsten as I don't actually use headline
>    entries in the journal, plain only
>    [2011-04-06 Wed 10:05]
> 
>> Wouldn't a better strategy be to have the "plain" section be started with a time,
> 
> Well, as you see above I actually do like to have the time of the entry,
> but the only way I thought I could do that was using the %U keyword in
> the template (which is clumsy as it then duplicates the date/day).
> 
>> 
>> (the %<%H:%M> requires the current git release...)
> 
> ... which, coincidently, seems to have appeared this morning :-)

Yes, but even before that you could have done
%(format-time-string "%H:%M")

Cheers

- Carsten