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 :-)
Yes, but even before that you could have done %(format-time-string "%H:%M") Cheers - Carsten