Re: [O] Feature Request: Time Line in Lab Book

2016-04-05 Thread John Hendy
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Dominik Schrempf wrote: > Hi John, > > thanks for your long answer. I could take out a lot of it. I think I > did not describe my problem well although all of you seemed to guess it! > Just a short rephrase with vocabulary from your posts: > > I want a logbook/jou

Re: [O] Feature Request: Time Line in Lab Book

2016-04-05 Thread Charles Millar
On 04/05/2016 09:34 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Tuesday, 5 Apr 2016 at 15:12, Dominik Schrempf wrote: Do I make myself clear now? Yes and I think the key would be to ensure that every note etc. has a heading. This avoids all the problems you have with non-terminated entries. Avoid a flat st

Re: [O] Feature Request: Time Line in Lab Book

2016-04-05 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 5 Apr 2016 at 15:12, Dominik Schrempf wrote: > Do I make myself clear now? Yes and I think the key would be to ensure that every note etc. has a heading. This avoids all the problems you have with non-terminated entries. Avoid a flat structure and org works very well. For instance,

Re: [O] Feature Request: Time Line in Lab Book

2016-04-05 Thread Dominik Schrempf
Hi John, thanks for your long answer. I could take out a lot of it. I think I did not describe my problem well although all of you seemed to guess it! Just a short rephrase with vocabulary from your posts: I want a logbook/journal where I always append text about new stuff to the end. Only, wh

Re: [O] Feature Request: Time Line in Lab Book

2016-03-31 Thread John Hendy
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 3:12 AM, Dominik Schrempf wrote: > Hello, > [snip] > A possible example: > > * February 2016 > February 10th: Some text and stuff in February 2016. > > ** TODO A task to be done. Filed on February 10th. >E.g., February 24th: Some text that should belong to the task on

Re: [O] Feature Request: Time Line in Lab Book

2016-03-31 Thread Nick Dokos
Dominik Schrempf writes: > I want to write a lab book with Org mode. Thereby my workflow is as > follows: New stuff is appended to the bottom of the document (with time > stamps in chronological order). Sometimes, especially when I discuss > something in a meeting, tasks pop up that can only b

Re: [O] Feature Request: Time Line in Lab Book

2016-03-31 Thread Dominik Schrempf
Hi Eric, thanks for your answer. I guess drawers in general are the solution to my problems because then I can associate text to a specific headline. I introduced a DESCRIPTION drawer that includes the description of my problem/task and I log the solution or outcome into the LOGBOOK drawer when

Re: [O] Feature Request: Time Line in Lab Book

2016-03-31 Thread Eric S Fraga
Hi Dominik, it's not entirely clear what you want but I can suggest what I do. I use the following capture rule to add entries to my journal (equivalent to your lab book): #+begin_src emacs-lisp ("j" "journal" entry (file+datetree+prompt "~/s/notes/journal.org") "* %(format-time-string \

[O] Feature Request: Time Line in Lab Book

2016-03-31 Thread Dominik Schrempf
Hello, I want to write a lab book with Org mode. Thereby my workflow is as follows: New stuff is appended to the bottom of the document (with time stamps in chronological order). Sometimes, especially when I discuss something in a meeting, tasks pop up that can only be done later. These tasks a