Re: [Orgmode] Awesome! Date-tree from agenda!

[Carsten Dominik]

On Nov 25, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> Nathan Neff <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I've been looking for a way to do quick "journal" entries
> > for /past/ dates, and was disappointed that the Journal
> > capture template always used the current date.
> >
> > I found out you can go to a date in the agenda, and press "k c",  
> > which
> > will cause any capture-template to use the date in the agenda, not  
> > today's date.

Glad to hear that someone is using agenda actions.

> > This will use the agenda's date when putting journal entries into a
> > file like this:
>
> Thanks for this.  I have always been a little frustrated by the
> limitation you mention above (but obviously not frustrated enough to  
> do
> anything about it).  using the agenda view to accomplish this is
> perfectly fine!


There is now also a new capture target type

(file+datetree+prompt "path/to/file")

which will prompt you for the date (RET will still use today then....)

Hope this proves to be useful.

- Carsten