Re: Re: How to add entries to an org file, not diary

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

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?

- Carsten