From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Welle Subject: Managing appts with org-mode, diary Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:17:01 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39742 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pi4Qu-0006na-4w for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:25:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi4Qs-0004Ua-L3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:25:07 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52730) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi4Qs-0004UM-Dv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:25:06 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi4Qq-0003y0-Sy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:25:04 +0100 Received: from dslb-088-066-026-056.pools.arcor-ip.net ([88.66.26.56]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:25:04 +0100 Received: from mwe012008 by dslb-088-066-026-056.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:25:04 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hello, currently I create diary entries for my appointments, the appointments are marked in the calendar. This is handy because if I want to create a new appointment I can overview a three month period and I can see at a glance which days are already blocked. Now I want to manage my appointments in a more project centric way. For instance I work at ten projects that have ten corresponding org files. Now I note appointments for a certain project in the corresponding org file. The appointments are still marked in my calendar, but that is unusable slow. If I use the per month org agenda view the display is way to confusing to get an overview and decide on which day I can make a new appointment. How do you deal with this problem? I can imagine to generate a ~/.diary file every time I add or change an appointment in org mode. This would speed up the process of displaying the calendar. An agenda view that shows a three month period or so and that has all the sub nodes of the days hidden might help, too. Then days, that have already appointments, are marked and you have to show the sub nodes if you need detailed information about appointments of that day. Is somethind like that already implemented and I haven't found it yet ;)? Any hints are welcome. Regards hmw -- biff4emacsen - A biff-like tool for (X)Emacs http://www.c0t0d0s0.de/biff4emacsen/biff4emacsen.html Flood - Your friendly network packet generator http://www.c0t0d0s0.de/flood/flood.html