Hi Samuel, Yes, this is of course also a very good solution that avoids the overhead of a date tree. One of the reasons why the dates in Org are in ISO format was to make them sortable by a simple text sort. Thanks for sharing.
Carsten On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: > as an aside, just wanted to point out an alternative that i use > exclusively instead of date trees. of course it is not for everybody > and i do not want to hijack the thread, so followups should have a > different header. > > ***** CONVERSATION [2017-01-15 Sun 14:09] talked with carsten > > i sort these in the outline. they are always visible at the bottom of > every subtree, in time order. i can follow a thread by just reading > the headers. i can quickly do a binary search to find a date. i can > select a region without selecting parents. they show up nicely in the > agenda. i sort them in the agenda also. links to them work fine. > the date information i need is there without changing visibility, yet > unobtrusive. > > it might sound silly to bring it up, but everybody i have told to this > has had an aha moment and been enthusiastic. > > just as an aside. > > -- > The Kafka Pandemic: http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com > > The disease DOES progress. MANY people have died from it. And > ANYBODY can get it. > > Denmark: free Karina Hansen NOW. > UPDATE 2016-10: home, but not fully free >
