On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 20:44, Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> wrote: > Ali Tofigh <alix.tof...@gmail.com> writes: > >> First, I want to thank everyone who has worked on creating org-mode. I >> am a new user and I enjoy using org-mode a lot! Thank you for your >> efforts. >> >> Second, I have a suggestion for a feature: A new "highlight" feature >> which can also be tagged and made into a todo item, just like >> headlines. For example (using -:: text ::- as example begin/end pairs) >> >> ---8<----- >> * journal >> ** group meeting [2010-02-17 Wed 14:00] >> text text text... >> >> -:: should try the above in project 1 ::- :idea: >> -:: Sandy made a good point there! ::- >> -:: TODO Sandy wants me to mail her the details ::- >> ---8<----- >> >> This would allow users to stay in the same level when writing their >> documents instead of creating new ones with headlines. Also, it would >> allow users to create todo items in the context in which they arose. >> >> An alternative that may be easier to implement is to extend tagging >> and todos to list items: >> >> - should try the above in project 1 :idea: >> - Sandy made a good point there! >> - TODO Sandy wants me to mail her the details >> >> Perhaps this has not been a feature that has been requested before. >> But I believe that if it is implemented, it will be used frequently by >> users. What do you think? > > Hi Ali, > > There are a few problems with this proposal. Currently tags can only > live on headlines so tagging your list items and general text isn't > going to work as an org-mode tag. I doubt this will change anytime soon. > > I take meeting notes in org-mode regularly and just use lists for point > form notes which I distribute. I have non-org-mode todo and done > entries in my notes as part of the list. Something like this: > > ,---- > | - notes for meeting go here > | - more notes > | - TODO: remember to do something > | - more notes > | - DONE: did that thing > | - etc... > `---- > > then I highlight the notes for the meeting and run a function to convert > the - TODO: and - DONE: entries into something easily seen in the flow > of text. > > (defun bh/prepare-meeting-notes () > "Prepare meeting notes for email > Take selected region and convert tabs to spaces, mark TODOs with leading > >>>, and copy to kill ring for pasting" > (interactive) > (let (prefix) > (save-excursion > (save-restriction > (narrow-to-region (region-beginning) (region-end)) > (untabify (point-min) (point-max)) > (goto-char (point-min)) > (while (re-search-forward "^\\( *-\\\) \\(TODO\\|DONE\\): " > (point-max) t) > (replace-match (concat (make-string (length (match-string 1)) ?>) " > " (match-string 2) ": "))) > (goto-char (point-min)) > (kill-ring-save (point-min) (point-max)))))) > > which gives me this: > > ,---- > | - notes for meeting go here > | - more notes > | >>> TODO: remember to do something > | - more notes > | >>>>> DONE: did that thing > | - etc... > `---- > > then I can just paste them into some mail client and mail them to all of > the participants. The TODO: and DONE: entries are easy to see in the > text and the body of the heading is just plain text. I'm free to link > to these meeting notes as a reference. If any of the TODO items in the > meeting are for me I create a separate set of TODOs for each of those -- > the meeting is over and the task for the meeting is marked DONE. The > original TODOs are easy to see in the context they were created. > > It's not fancy... but it works and it's _fast_.
Thanks for sharing that! I'll have to play around to see what works for me. But this setup sounds really interesting. Thanks for the elist-code too. After all these years of programming, maybe I'm finally motivated enough to actually learn elisp. Not a small feat by org-mode given years of resistance. Cheers, /Ali _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
