On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Philip Rooke wrote: > Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > > Thanks Carsten, > >> I can see that it might be nice to simply add some text >> under the date headline in a date tree, in order to build >> up a long journal entry from little snippets. > > Yes, this is exactly what I do over the course of the day and I find it > very useful. The trouble I run into is that, all too often, I forget or > don't have time to add an entry on the day the noteworthy event > happened. I use the agenda capture action (k c) in this situation since > the date I am on in the agenda is picked up automatically by the > template and the right date headline is created at the right place in > the journal. Currently I have to then cut/paste the note, which is the > bit I was trying to avoid. > >> However, you are trying to *mix* headline entries and plain entries >> under the same date node in the tree, and this seems to be impossible. > > Sorry, my fault, the full version of journal template I currently use > ends up creating entries like: > > *** 2011-04-06 Wednesday > > Try and clarify journal/note taking use case for Carsten > [2011-04-06 Wed 10:03] > > Apologise for confusing Carsten as I don't actually use headline > entries in the journal, plain only > [2011-04-06 Wed 10:05] > >> Wouldn't a better strategy be to have the "plain" section be started with a >> time, > > Well, as you see above I actually do like to have the time of the entry, > but the only way I thought I could do that was using the %U keyword in > the template (which is clumsy as it then duplicates the date/day). > >> >> (the %<%H:%M> requires the current git release...) > > ... which, coincidently, seems to have appeared this morning :-) > > That means I can use something like: > > (setq org-capture-templates > '(("e" "Journal entry" entry (file+datetree "/tmp/journal.org") > "* %<%H:%M>\n %?") > ("l" "Journal late entry" entry (file+datetree "/tmp/journal.org") > "* Retrospectively added %<%Y-%m-%d %H:%M>\n %?"))) > > Used from an agenda action the retrospective date headline/notes are > created and filed in the right place, giving something like: > > * 2011 > ** 2011-04 April > *** 2011-04-05 Tuesday > **** Retrospectively added 2011-04-06 11:35 > Checked with Bastien about committing doc string changes > *** 2011-04-06 Wednesday > **** 11:33 > Updated Org to latest version in order to get new capture keyword > expansion capability > **** 11:36 > Problem solved. Brilliant, that works. Carsten never ceases to > amaze... > > Thank you.
You're welcome. - Carsten