Re: [O] Bug: datetree capture from agenda [7.5 (release_7.5.135.g7021f.dirty)]

[Carsten Dominik]

On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Philip Rooke wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Thanks Carsten,
> 
>> I can see that it might be nice to simply add some text
>> under the date headline in a date tree, in order to build
>> up a long journal entry from little snippets.
> 
> Yes, this is exactly what I do over the course of the day and I find it
> very useful.  The trouble I run into is that, all too often, I forget or
> don't have time to add an entry on the day the noteworthy event
> happened.  I use the agenda capture action (k c) in this situation since
> the date I am on in the agenda is picked up automatically by the
> template and the right date headline is created at the right place in
> the journal.  Currently I have to then cut/paste the note, which is the
> bit I was trying to avoid.
> 
>> However, you are trying to *mix* headline entries and plain entries
>> under the same date node in the tree, and this seems to be impossible.
> 
> Sorry, my fault, the full version of journal template I currently use
> ends up creating entries like:
> 
> *** 2011-04-06 Wednesday
> 
>    Try and clarify journal/note taking use case for Carsten
>    [2011-04-06 Wed 10:03]
> 
>    Apologise for confusing Carsten as I don't actually use headline
>    entries in the journal, plain only
>    [2011-04-06 Wed 10:05]
> 
>> Wouldn't a better strategy be to have the "plain" section be started with a 
>> time,
> 
> Well, as you see above I actually do like to have the time of the entry,
> but the only way I thought I could do that was using the %U keyword in
> the template (which is clumsy as it then duplicates the date/day).
> 
>> 
>> (the %<%H:%M> requires the current git release...)
> 
> ... which, coincidently, seems to have appeared this morning :-)
> 
> That means I can use something like:
> 
> (setq org-capture-templates
>      '(("e" "Journal entry" entry (file+datetree "/tmp/journal.org")
>         "* %<%H:%M>\n  %?")
>        ("l" "Journal late entry" entry (file+datetree "/tmp/journal.org")
>         "* Retrospectively added %<%Y-%m-%d %H:%M>\n  %?")))
> 
> Used from an agenda action the retrospective date headline/notes are
> created and filed in the right place, giving something like:
> 
> * 2011
> ** 2011-04 April
> *** 2011-04-05 Tuesday
> **** Retrospectively added 2011-04-06 11:35
>     Checked with Bastien about committing doc string changes
> *** 2011-04-06 Wednesday
> **** 11:33
>     Updated Org to latest version in order to get new capture keyword
>     expansion capability
> **** 11:36
>     Problem solved. Brilliant, that works.  Carsten never ceases to
>     amaze...
> 
> Thank you.

You're welcome.

- Carsten