Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

[Jonathan Leech-Pepin]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:46 AM, John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Bastien <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Jack,
>>
>> Jack Erwin <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> So, a couple of questions:
>>>
>>> 1) Is this a sane approach?  My elisp is average at best, and the
>>> org-mode devs could probably think of a more graceful way to do this.
>>
>> I don't know.
>>
>> If I were you, I would give Org a little more time before trying to
>> make it behave as planner behaves.
>>
>> Also, you might be interested in org-datetree.el, which helps storing
>> things relatively to a date, which sounds a bit more `à la planner'.
>
> Out of curiosity, do date trees currently have any built in search
> functions or sparse tree searching ability? I currently use timestamps
> to capture things under the current month like this:
>
> * Journals
> ** 2012 August
> *** [2012-08-09 Fri] Did something
> - Notes
> - About
> - What I did
>
> This is nice as I need to print my notes for an intellectual property
> documentation notebook. I have a recurring deadline todo to remind me
> to print my orgmode notes and permanently tape them in my IP notebook.
> With timestamps (and the new sparse tree time functionality you
> added!) I can just search for all time stamps after my last completion
> date, mark any relevant with :export: and am on my way. When done, I
> can just replace-string :export: -> "" and the file is back to normal.
>
> Date trees would make this easier as I like using capture... but I
> don't like having to change my .emacs each month to make the
> adjustment of =** July 2012= as the target headline to =August 2012=.
> Date trees are the obvious way to be able to do this, but they don't
> have any of the neat search functionality that I know of.
>

You could try replacing "<Current Month>" with =,(format-time-string
"%B")= in your capture template (just make sure to use a backtick
rather than a quote.  The snippet below would provide just such a
capture template that expands to "<Month> <Year>" automatically
without any intervention on a monthly or annual basis.

It doesn't include the inactive timestamp, or any other markings, but
those can be easily added or adapted from the existing template.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq org-capture-templates
      `(("t"
         "Test"
         entry
         (file+headline "~/test/test-capture.org"
                        ,(format "%s %s"
                                 (format-time-string "%B")
                                 (format-time-string "%Y"))))))
#+end_src

>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>>
>>   
>> http://orgmode.org/w/?p=org-mode.git;a=blob_plain;f=lisp/org-datetree.el;hb=HEAD
>>
>>> 2) Is there a reason that the org-agenda-after-show-hook is only called
>>> when using org-agenda-goto and not org-agenda-switch-to, or is this a
>>> bug?
>>
>> A leftover, fixed now, thanks!
>>
>> --
>>  Bastien
>>
>

Regards,

--
Jon