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Re: [Emacs-orgmode] A remember/notepad add on to org-mode
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Philip Rooke |
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Re: [Emacs-orgmode] A remember/notepad add on to org-mode |
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Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:33:44 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
> This feels to me like a short version of what remember does.
I am not quite sure that it is, primarily because I do not think there
is a way to customise the format of the headline that is inserted to
give the style of entry that Charles wants.
> Why don't you just use remember for this and get a link back to where you
> were when you decided to make this entry?
For a while I did use the org-remember way of jotting notes but in the
end gave up as it didn't seem to save me much time. For example:
1. Typically the headlines in my "journal" are of the form
* [2006-02-24 Fri 11:14] Something I have just thought of...
I almost always use C-u C-c ! to produce that style of time stamp,
which I like and which is consistent with the other active and
inactive time stamps in my org files. Unfortunately the remember
function just uses current-time-string if it is automatically
creating the headline which isn't really what I want. If I
enter the headline directly in the remember buffer (by starting
with a *) then I have to manually create the time stamp or bind
org-time-stamp-inactive to a key or some such thing and I have not
gained much.
2. Similarly, I couldn't come up with a neat way to enter a
scheduled/deadline TODO item through this method. If for example I
enter:
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TODO Something needs to be done
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in the remember buffer it ends up as an entry like:
** Mon Mar 13 09:50:23 2006 (TODO Something needs to be done)
TODO Something needs to be done
<file:~/docs/.notes>
I then found myself editing this in order to turn it into a
recognised TODO entry and also to delete the repeated text that I
didn't want. That really negated the speed of using the function
in the first place.
I don't suppose though that it is easy to generalise what people
might want the remember function to do. Personally I think I would
find something like the following useful.
1. Enter plain text like
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Something interesting I have just thought of...
Blah, blah
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in the remember buffer and get an entry like
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** [2006-02-24 Fri 11:14] Something interesting I have just thought of...
Blah, blah
<file:~/docs/.notes>
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in my notes file.
2. Enter text with some keyword in the remember buffer e.g.
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TODO Something I really must do
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and get an entry like
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** TODO Something I really must do
DEADLINE: <2006-03-13 Mon 10:27>
<file:~/docs/.notes>
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Regards,
Phil