I work for a public health department. Twice in the past 5 years we have
had to open evacuation shelters during a flood, for anywhere from 80 to
120 medically-frail evacuees. Our documentation system (paper) has
improved, but it is still not ideal. I am experimenting with whether
org-mode could meet our needs. It's basis in plain text may strike the
proper balance between structure and flexibility.
Part of my .emacs includes the following:
(setq org-capture-templates
'(("a" "Admit" entry
(file "~/Shelter/ShelterAdmissions.org")
"* admit %^{LASTNAME}, %^{firstname} %U
:PROPERTIES:
%^{IDnumber}p
%^{Birthdate}p
%^{Age}p
%^{Sex}p
%^{Address1}p
%^{Address2}p
%^{City}p
%^{State}p
%^{Zipcode}p
%^{Doctor1}p
%^{Doctor2}p
%^{Pharmacy1}p
%^{Pharmacy2}p"
:empty-lines: 1)
)
)
The first line in my ShelterAdmissions.org file is:
#+TODO: admit(a) in(i!) out(o@) | discharged(d@)
and things are working pretty well so far.
I'd like to know if there is a way to force LASTNAME to show up in
all-caps in ShelterAdmissions.org, regardless of how it is typed into
the capture template.
Thanks.
--Chris Ryan