Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-14 Thread Bastien
Hi John, I added the option `org-datetree-add-timestamp'. You can (setq org-datetree-add-timestamp 'inactive) then use C-c / on date trees to look for entries with inactive time stamps. HTH, -- Bastien

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-13 Thread Bastien
Jambunathan K writes: > I am wondering why people aren't using org-element.el to extract > intelligence from org buffers. > > We seem to be living in 2011s. It is already 2012. org-element.el is not yet part of a release. It is only available from the git repository. The good news is that it

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-13 Thread Jambunathan K
I am wondering why people aren't using org-element.el to extract intelligence from org buffers. We seem to be living in 2011s. It is already 2012. --

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Pohlack
On 12.08.2012 17:48, John Hendy wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Bastien wrote: >> Hi John, >> >> John Hendy writes: >> >>> Date trees are the obvious way to be able to do this, but they don't >>> have any of the neat search functionality that I know of. >> >> Can you describe the search

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-12 Thread John Hendy
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Bastien wrote: > Hi John, > > John Hendy writes: > >> Date trees are the obvious way to be able to do this, but they don't >> have any of the neat search functionality that I know of. > > Can you describe the search functionality you would like for date-trees? > I

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-11 Thread Bastien
Hi John, John Hendy writes: > Date trees are the obvious way to be able to do this, but they don't > have any of the neat search functionality that I know of. Can you describe the search functionality you would like for date-trees? I'm not sure I groked it. Thanks, -- Bastien

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-10 Thread Jonathan Leech-Pepin
Hi, On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:46 AM, John Hendy wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Bastien wrote: >> Hi Jack, >> >> Jack Erwin writes: >> >>> So, a couple of questions: >>> >>> 1) Is this a sane approach? My elisp is average at best, and the >>> org-mode devs could probably think of a m

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-10 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Bastien wrote: > Hi Jack, > > Jack Erwin writes: > >> So, a couple of questions: >> >> 1) Is this a sane approach? My elisp is average at best, and the >> org-mode devs could probably think of a more graceful way to do this. > > I don't know. > > If I were you, I

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-10 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Charles Philip Chan writes: > The key here is really to take some time to set up your Agenda Views > and Capture Templates. Oops, forgot to mention tags. You should think about and setup your tags too. They are great for searching. Charles pgpnvVOisgRUL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-10 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Jack Erwin writes: Hello Jack: > I am in the process of trying out org-mode after a long stint with > planner.el. The most obvious difference here is that planner.el uses > "day pages" that keep a running list of tasks versus the more dynamic > nature of org which collects them from a set of ar

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-10 Thread Bastien
Hi Jack, Jack Erwin writes: > So, a couple of questions: > > 1) Is this a sane approach? My elisp is average at best, and the > org-mode devs could probably think of a more graceful way to do this. I don't know. If I were you, I would give Org a little more time before trying to make it behav

[O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-09 Thread Jack Erwin
Hello, I am in the process of trying out org-mode after a long stint with planner.el. The most obvious difference here is that planner.el uses "day pages" that keep a running list of tasks versus the more dynamic nature of org which collects them from a set of arbitrary .org files. While I like