[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Date stamps in notes?

[Paul Lussier]

Paul Lussier <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm thinking of switching to not using day pages for my home planner.
> Since I don't run planner very often there, it seems more conducive to
> having a single plan page which links to the various 'project' pages.
>
> However, since I'm trying to use this more to capture various
> "remember"ances, I want the date stamp included in the note heading so
> I know when the note was made.  This will also be helpful when looking
> at the project pages.  Currently the only thing placed in the heading
> is the timestamp, which is mostly useless without the date context.
>
> Is there an easy way do this?

It seems that it shouldn't be too difficult to hack
remember-planner-add-timestamp to do the right thing. There's a call
at the end of this function before calling planner-update-note which
seems to create the timestamp:

  (insert (format-time-string remember-planner-timestamp-format
                             (current-time)))

My first thought was to change this to


  (insert (planner-today)
          (format-time-string remember-planner-timestamp-format
                              (current-time)))

However, since I have planner-use-day-pages set to nil currently, this
won't work, since the definition of planner-today is:

  (defun planner-today ()
    "Return the filename of the current date."
    (if planner-use-day-pages
        (or planner-timewarp-date (planner-date-to-filename
                                   (decode-time (current-time))))
      planner-initial-page))

I'm curious, is there a good reason why planner-today is dependent
upon the setting of planner-use-day-pages?  This type of function
seems pretty useful regardless of whether people are using day pages
or not.  I certainly could change remember-planner-add-timestamp to be:

  (insert (planner-date-to-filename (decode-time (current-time))) 
           " "
           (format-time-string remember-planner-timestamp-format
                               (current-time)))

But that seems rather long-winded, when I could just call planner-today...

Input and advice welcomed by an elisp neophyte :)
-- 

Seeya,
Paul