Re: [O] Occurance property, or some similar name?

[Richard Riley]

Memnon Anon <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I was once one of the many people who apparently originally
>> misunderstood what "SCHEDULED" meant, and used to set it to like, an
>> appointment time.
>
> Well, you can use it that way.
> The point is: Scheduled items behave differently to timestamped items.
> If you prefer the behaviour scheduling provides you with, go for it.
>
>> I kind of miss how nice it was back when I misunderstood how events work
>> (escept for all of those non-TODOs staying around forever on my
>> agenda..) where I had a dedicated property for this, and pressing
>> C-c C-s would always change that property.
>
> I just did a quick check. 
> It seems to me that timestamps within a property work.
> So, if you prefer, you can set your timestamps in a property like this:
>
> *  NEXT Task 2
>    :LOGBOOK:
>    :END:
>    :PROPERTIES:
>    :DATE:     <2011-04-12>
>    :END:

Yup, its what i use to make sure my journal entries appear in my agenda,
the snipped from org-capture-templates is

 ("j" "Journal" entry
  (file+datetree "journal.org")
  "* %?\n       :PROPERTIES:\n  :DateCreated: %T\n      :END:\n%i\n%a")


very handy.