When using Org for planning, I often find myself corrupting my Org files. All kinds of things can go wrong, but the basic issue is that agenda items have a syntax, and it's easy to violate, especially when I'm going *fast*, which after all is what Org is supposed to enable!
For example, a typical captured item looks like: ** TODO Set up yasnippet SCHEDULED: <2010-11-22 Mon> :PROPERTIES: :Link: [[some-nasty-link]] :ID: A0B4159C-D796-40DF-9ADD-93DF03577B68 :END: [2010-11-20 Sat 20:17] Now, suppose I'm looking at this in the agenda and I want to add some commentary. Where should I open the new line? If I choose wrongly, my agenda will start to misbehave (e.g. items will appear to be un-reschedulable because they'll acquire a second SCHEDULED date). So I'm requesting some more help from Org in maintaining proper Org syntax. Could Org have a mode that prevents things from being modified incorrectly? For example, it'd be awesome if dates were smart (TAB into one, hit return, get a smart date editor). It'd be great if there were a way to make the ID property read-only (or really really hard to change). I'd love it if there were a way to create a link to an org item that narrows the view to just that item, so I don't inadvertently mess anything else up. Do you get the idea? Thanks for listening, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com _______________________________________________ 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
