Matt Lundin <m...@imapmail.org> writes:
> zwz <zhangwe...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> AFAIK, it is now impossible to add a table entry by org-template.
>> But I think it is very useful. For example,
>> in my private.org, there is a section
>>
>> * Contacts
>> | name | tel. | email | addr |
>> |------+------+---------+-----------|
>> | A | 12 | a...@a.com | somewhere |
>>
>>
>> If it is feasible with such a template
>> ("Contact" ?c "| %^{Name} | %^{tel} | %^{email} | %^{addr} |\n"
>> "~/private.org" "Contacts")
>> to add new contacts, it would be very nice to organize (e.g. sort) all
>> the contacts based on org-table.
>
> One solution would be to use properties to store contact information:
>
> * Name
> :PROPERTIES:
> :NAME: A
> :TEL: 12
> :EMAIL: a...@a.com
> :ADDR: somewhere
> :END:
>
> It would be easy to set up a remember template to capture such
> information. You could then sort all the headings in the contacts file
> by property. And there are other advantages. You could view the
> information in contact view or capture it (or a subset) in tables using
> dblocks. You could add notes and additional metadata to each contact.
> And you could access this data in other emacs modes by using org's
> APIs.
>
> - (info "(org) Using the property API")
> - (info "(org) Using the mapping API")
>
> HTH,
> Matt
>
Yes, this is how I am doing now.
I forgot the "column view" thing. :)
BTW, how to sort the headings (names) by the properties?
and what is dblocks?
Are they mentioned in the manual?
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