Hi Philip, thank you for this very detailed report and recipe.
First of all, the date tree target currently is meant only for entry-type captures. If you use a plain capture type, it will go to the end of the buffer and the localization by the date tree is ignored. I can see that it might be nice to simply add some text under the date headline in a date tree, in order to build up a long journal entry from little snippets. However, you are trying to *mix* headline entries and plain entries under the same date node in the tree, and this seems to be impossible. If you first add a headline entry and then plain text, that plane text will structurally belong to the headline that you just created. Wouldn't a better strategy be to have the "plain" section be started with a time, for example (setq org-capture-templates '(("h" "Journal headline" entry (file+datetree "/tmp/journal.org")) ("n" "Journal note" plain (file+datetree "/tmp/journal.org") "* %<%H:%M>\n %?"))) (the %<%H:%M> requires the current git release...) Another way to phrase my question is: What is your use case for this mix? - Carsten On 5.4.2011, at 23:50, Philip Rooke wrote: > > Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and > what in fact did happen. You don't know how to make a good report? See > > http://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback > > Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Launch Emacs with no startup files > > $ emacs -Q > > ; evaluate these 2 forms in the *scratch* buffer > > (require 'org-install) > (setq org-capture-templates > '(("h" "Journal headline" entry (file+datetree "/tmp/journal.org")) > ("n" "Journal note" plain (file+datetree "/tmp/journal.org")))) > > ; follow this sequence > > M-x org-agenda > a ; for current week or day agenda > k c ; agenda action for capture > h ; to add a headline entry in journal for today > [...] ; add some text and C-c C-c to save > k c > n ; add a note in journal for today > [...] ; add some text and save > b ; back one week > k c > h ; add a headline entry in journal for one week ago > [...] > b ; go back one more week > k c > n ; add a note in journal for two weeks ago > [...] > > Look at the journal file created. > > I would expect to see a date tree with a note entry under the > date two weeks ago, a headline entry under the date one week ago > and a note and headline entry under today's date. > > What I see is the date tree correctly constructed. The note and > headline under today's date are correct filed. The headline > entry from one week ago is correctly filed. The date headline > from two weeks ago is correctly created but the text of the note > entry itself is wrongly appended at the end of the file under > today's date. > > That doesn't seem right to me. > > Thanks, > > Phil > > Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.0.50.3 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.6.0, NS > apple-appkit-1038.35) > of 2011-02-17 on bo > Package: Org-mode version 7.5 (release_7.5.135.g7021f.dirty) > > current state: > ============== > (setq > org-export-latex-after-initial-vars-hook '(org-beamer-after-initial-vars) > org-speed-command-hook '(org-speed-command-default-hook > org-babel-speed-command-hook) > org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe) > org-capture-templates '(("h" "Journal headline" entry (file+datetree > "~/tmp/journal.org")) > ("n" "Journal note" plain (file+datetree > "~/tmp/journal.org"))) > org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current) > org-export-blocks-postblock-hook '(org-exp-res/src-name-cleanup) > org-export-latex-format-toc-function 'org-export-latex-format-toc-default > org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe > org-src-native-tab-command-maybe org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe) > org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer > org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer) > org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p > org-export-first-hook '(org-beamer-initialize-open-trackers) > org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text) > org-babel-pre-tangle-hook '(save-buffer) > org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-drawers > org-cycle-show-empty-lines > org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change) > org-export-preprocess-before-normalizing-links-hook > '(org-remove-file-link-modifiers) > org-mode-hook '((lambda nil > (org-add-hook (quote change-major-mode-hook) (quote > org-show-block-all) (quote append) (quote local))) > (lambda nil > (org-add-hook (quote change-major-mode-hook) (quote > org-babel-show-result-all) (quote append) (quote local))) > org-babel-result-hide-spec org-babel-hide-all-hashes) > org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook '(org-babel-hash-at-point > org-babel-execute-safely-maybe) > org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p > org-export-interblocks '((lob org-babel-exp-lob-one-liners) (src > org-babel-exp-inline-src-blocks)) > org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter) > org-from-is-user-regexp "\\<phil@bo\\.sak\\.lan\\>\\|\\<Philip Rooke\\>" > org-export-preprocess-before-selecting-backend-code-hook > '(org-beamer-select-beamer-code) > org-export-latex-final-hook '(org-beamer-amend-header org-beamer-fix-toc > org-beamer-auto-fragile-frames > org-beamer-place-default-actions-for-lists) > org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe) > org-export-blocks '((src org-babel-exp-src-block nil) (comment > org-export-blocks-format-comment t) > (ditaa org-export-blocks-format-ditaa nil) (dot > org-export-blocks-format-dot nil)) > ) >