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[Orgmode] Automatic Update of Org files
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Mark Elston |
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[Orgmode] Automatic Update of Org files |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:03:38 -0800 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) |
Its amazing what you can do with this package!
I have weekly meetings I attend where we take a look at
different sources of status information. We have an action
item list in an Excel file, an issue tracking list in Test
Track (from Seapine Software) and a project schedule in
Microsoft Project.
I decided I didn't like looking in three (or sometimes more)
different files to collect the tasks I (and my group) had coming
up so I wrote a Perl script to query those sources and write
the results into different Org files.
It all works great and now C-c a a reads these files and
prints any upcoming deadlines from these tasks in my
agenda. What a terrific way to keep track of assigned
tasks.
There is a drawback, however. Once these files are created
I would like to add notes to them and have these notes persist.
Unfortunately, right now I don't have any way of doing this
as these files get overwritten when I run my Perl script again.
So, does anyone have any ideas about how to go about a task
like this? Is there some way to, for example, write information
to a 'temporary' Org file and "merge" the info? I would not want
to write this in Perl and I don't know elisp well enough to try
anything like this that way either.
Perhaps I am looking for too much. But I have gotten spoiled with
such a great package.
Mark
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