Re: [Orgmode] GTD: Solving the bottleneck of converting incoming mails to NEXT actions

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:08, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:

> Hi Bastien,
>
> thanks a lot for your help, very useful:
>
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:44:30 +0200
> Bastien <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  b> Please
>
>  b> 1. append an ".org" extension to your file
>  b> 2. restart your config
>  b> 3. test and report again
>
> When following steps 2 and 3, I get
>
>  "byte-code: Target files for remember notes must be in Org-mode"
>
> and when making "~/Tools/Org/E.org" the default file name, things seem
> to work fine with the one exception that instead of creating the 
> heading
> that was specified as default, it creates a "* Notes" heading. This
> makes no sense, imho. If a heading is created, why not creat the
> default?
>
> On changing the file names, I wanted to avoid that, because the file
> names are used in generating the agenda, and I don't want to lose four
> characters in the compact view. Also it is generally unnecessary in
> terms of using Org mode, as Emacs can also identify files by content,
> e.g. my Email file says
>
> "Georg's Email TODO Org File                                                     -*- 
> mode: org; -*-"
>
> So I consider that necessity a bug.

It is not necessary to rename the file - if you file comes up in 
org-mode
when you open it in Emacs, everything is fine.  The fact that you get 
this
error means that the file Org-mode is visiting on order to store the
note is *not* in org-mode.

>  The user has explicitly specified
> that this is an Org file, remember should not consider itself smarter
> than the user and insist on the file name extension.
>
> Here is what I think should be done:
>
>  a) use the default heading name specified by the user for
>     auto-creation, instead of "Notes".

Yes.

- Carsten