On Sat, 30 Jan 2021, at 12:53, Richard Lawrence wrote: > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > (defun org-update-clocktable-on-date (date) > (save-excursion > ;; open the file containing the datetree: > (find-file (concat org-directory "/diary.org")) > ;; jump to the subtree for the given date: > ;; note: date must look like (m d y) where all three values are integers > (org-datetree-find-date-create date) > ;; narrow to the subtree for this date, so we don't update > ;; any other clocktables > (org-narrow-to-subtree) > ;; update the clock report, or create it if it doesn't exist > ;; note: we pass a prefix argument to tell org-clock-report to > ;; update the first clocktable it finds in the (narrowed) buffer > (org-clock-report t) > ;; widen to the whole buffer again > (widen))) > #+end_src
This is wonderful Richard, and a great help to me. I had no idea of the org-datree-find-date-create, and the argument to org-clock-report cuts out a lot of my code. > Note that org-datetree-find-date has a slightly annoying interface, in > that you need to provide a list of three integers representing a > calendar date. Yes, that is a little awkward. What I did think of using was substrings to extract the date from the picker interface. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (defun org-date-picker-to-list () (let* ((date-string (org-read-date)) (year (substring date-string 0 4)) (month (substring date-string 5 7)) (day (substring date-string 8 10))) (mapcar 'string-to-number (list month day year)))) #+END_SRC Does that look sensible? My two next things to tackle are 1. A hook to run the function when I run org-capture. 2. Changing the org-clock-report options in your function above, but not the defaults. For the second point, is there some trick to swap a global variable for the run of a function? The variable in this case would be org-clocktable-defaults. Thank you so much Richard. You've probably saved me days of going through the org-mode documentation and source.