Hi, I am trying to get together a configuration for taking notes for historical research using org mode. I think org mode could be very useful for this, with its many ways of presenting, sorting and searching information in orgmode files.
One thing that has me a bit stuck, though, is timestamps that might represent a year. For instance, it would be nice to write: By <1849> the California Gold Rush had ... I’ve tried: By <1849-00-00> the California Gold Rush had ... and this at least registers as a time stamp, but it doesn’t seem to work (at least running M-x org-timeline on the file doesn’t seem to find the entry). I’ve tried ranges too: By <1849-01-01>--<1849-12-31> the California Gold Rush had ... And this kind of works, but it’s pretty awkward. I’m also not sure I want to see that entry for every date in 1849. Is there any way to represent this in orgmode? I guess what I am looking for is something that would show up on the first of the year in a timeline, but would represent the fact that the year is being treated as whole unit, and not a specific date. Any ideas are welcome! Thanks. best, Erik Hetzner -- Sent from my free software system <http://fsf.org/>.
