[Orgmode] Tutorial on Remember mode
I have written a tutorial on how I use Remember mode at my office and home. I have included Lisp code and screen shots to illustrate the article. Naturally, I wrote the artice in org-mode and published it to HTML. The link is http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/remember.html Comments and feedback welcome! Charles ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Tutorial on Remember mode
Hi, Your notes prompted me to add the tags prompt into my templates - thanks for that. But something strange. I have a template thus: (?e * %T %^{Title} %^g\n %i%?\n %a\n emacs.org Emacs) What happens is that when entering the note I see the template tags (boxquoted) , | * 2008-07-27 Sun 12:37 %^g | %? ` when being prompted for Title in the minibuffer - is this as designed? OldThunderbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have written a tutorial on how I use Remember mode at my office and home. I have included Lisp code and screen shots to illustrate the article. Naturally, I wrote the artice in org-mode and published it to HTML. The link is http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/remember.html Comments and feedback welcome! Charles ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode -- ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Feature Request: property for the time part of a timestamp.
Hi Carsten, Thank you so much. Here is a dumb question. What is the return value datatype and the value for the function? Right now I'm running edebug to trace what is going on there to figure this out Thanks, Jose Carsten Dominik wrote: If you get the latest git version, take a look at the variable `org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function'. HTH - Carsten On Jul 25, 2008, at 5:33 AM, Jose Robins wrote: Carsten Dominik wrote: Hi Robin, On Jul 23, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Jose Robins wrote: I've been extensively using column mode in the agenda buffer to plan my day/week. I have columns set up for scheduled and deadline. However, I was wondering if it'd be possible to expose just the time part of the scheduled timestamp as a property so that I could have a column for the time part of the timestamp (without the date). This would allow one to look @ the daily agenda and schedule time for tasks with just that column without bothering about the date (after all I'm already in today's agenda; so there is no need to see the date). This would in principle be possible of course, basically a filter when displaying the column. Hi Carsten, Would this filter be something that would be done on the source end? If so, would you consider adding it? :) The GoogleTech talk has inspired me to start hacking into the source code a bit and contributing back. As a baby step, I'm thinking about modifying the column view to display custom date formats for the date column. Any pointers on getting me going on this? Thanks mucho, Jose But Also if it'd be possible to sort the column view based on that column's contents it'd be great. That way, all the tasks will be sorted based on the time of the day that the task has been scheduled for. I guess I'm trying to use the column view similar to the time grid. This does not make sense becaue column view still uses the outline structure of your file. Why don't you just use the agenda or a timeline view for this? - Carsten Not sure if others' sort of planning methodology would benefit from this or not. I'm open to other ideas that folks may feel is more efficient for achieving this as well. Thanks, Jose ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org mailto:Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] some notes about installing org-mode on Sidux
Hello all, I faced some problems with using remember and org-mode and first I didn't connect them with either remember nor org-mode but with my use of aptitude instead, which is completely wrong with Sidux (well, we all learn ... ) However, in the end I thought to just mention a few of my experiences. Since I am no expert, neither with emacs nor with any programming languages (-being just a lousy user instead-) I thought to mention them anyway :-) ... if all what I faced is connected with incompetence on my side, well, don't through tomatoes at me ... just smile, please :-) Ok, first I installed Sidux, a system based on Debian sid, but stabilized and realy easy to use. I installed emacs22 and became quite amazed learning that org-mode came along bundled with emacs22. Yeah, I thought, great. Since I came from Ubuntu, the only thing I needed to do was to outcomment ;;(require 'org-install) and all went well. However, after some time of using org-mode I became aware that when exporting to html CSS didn't work properly (which had worked before with Ubuntu!) When researching the reason I found out that the version that came bundled with emacs22 is a very old version (AFAIR 4.65, and I guess back then there had been no org-install variable and that was the reason why I was to outcomment it to have org-mode working ... right?). Next I found out that there existed a seperate deb pakage org-mode which then delivered the newest version. And this one needs to have set (require 'org-install) otherwise it will not work (at least) with remember-el. I may have overlooked that in the manual that older versions don't accept org-install, but newer versions need it to work properly. Also according to my fresh experience it seems to matter if (require 'org-install) is called *before* e.g.: (org-remember-insinuate) (setq org-directory ~/Rollen/Org/) (define-key global-map \C-cr 'org-remember) If not emacs complains about a void org-remember-insinuate and will not work together with remember-el. There is another thing that I noted when installing org-mode. Here the install note: ---snip--- In org-indent-to-column: org-compat.el:212:5:Warning: `indent-to-column' called with 3 args, but requires 1-2 ---snap--- Ok, so that was what I wanted to mention ... ray ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Feature Request: property for the time part of a timestamp.
Hi Robin, the function must return the string that you'd like to have inserted as the value in the column. For example, to get the time, use something like (untested) (defun my-org-column-cleaner (title value) (cond ((equal title TIME) (if (and value (= (length value) 20)) (substring value 15 20) nil ; there was no value, or it was a short string )) (t nil))) (setq org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function 'my-org-column- cleaner) HTH - Carsten On Jul 27, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Jose Robins wrote: Hi Carsten, Thank you so much. Here is a dumb question. What is the return value datatype and the value for the function? Right now I'm running edebug to trace what is going on there to figure this out Thanks, Jose Carsten Dominik wrote: If you get the latest git version, take a look at the variable `org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function'. HTH - Carsten On Jul 25, 2008, at 5:33 AM, Jose Robins wrote: Carsten Dominik wrote: Hi Robin, On Jul 23, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Jose Robins wrote: I've been extensively using column mode in the agenda buffer to plan my day/week. I have columns set up for scheduled and deadline. However, I was wondering if it'd be possible to expose just the time part of the scheduled timestamp as a property so that I could have a column for the time part of the timestamp (without the date). This would allow one to look @ the daily agenda and schedule time for tasks with just that column without bothering about the date (after all I'm already in today's agenda; so there is no need to see the date). This would in principle be possible of course, basically a filter when displaying the column. Hi Carsten, Would this filter be something that would be done on the source end? If so, would you consider adding it? :) The GoogleTech talk has inspired me to start hacking into the source code a bit and contributing back. As a baby step, I'm thinking about modifying the column view to display custom date formats for the date column. Any pointers on getting me going on this? Thanks mucho, Jose But Also if it'd be possible to sort the column view based on that column's contents it'd be great. That way, all the tasks will be sorted based on the time of the day that the task has been scheduled for. I guess I'm trying to use the column view similar to the time grid. This does not make sense becaue column view still uses the outline structure of your file. Why don't you just use the agenda or a timeline view for this? - Carsten Not sure if others' sort of planning methodology would benefit from this or not. I'm open to other ideas that folks may feel is more efficient for achieving this as well. Thanks, Jose ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Tutorial on Remember mode
On Jul 27, 2008, at 3:43 AM, Richard G Riley wrote: Hi, Your notes prompted me to add the tags prompt into my templates - thanks for that. But something strange. I have a template thus: (?e * %T %^{Title} %^g\n %i%?\n %a\n emacs.org Emacs) What happens is that when entering the note I see the template tags (boxquoted) , | * 2008-07-27 Sun 12:37 %^g | %? ` when being prompted for Title in the minibuffer - is this as designed? Yes. Org-mode insterts the template and then walks through the template to fill in all escape sequences. If ou have several prompts, you will see intermediate steps. - Carsten ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Feature Request: property for the time part of a timestamp.
Hi Carsten, Works beautifully! Thanks Jose Carsten Dominik wrote: Hi Robin, the function must return the string that you'd like to have inserted as the value in the column. For example, to get the time, use something like (untested) (defun my-org-column-cleaner (title value) (cond ((equal title TIME) (if (and value (= (length value) 20)) (substring value 15 20) nil ; there was no value, or it was a short string )) (t nil))) (setq org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function 'my-org-column-cleaner) HTH - Carsten On Jul 27, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Jose Robins wrote: Hi Carsten, Thank you so much. Here is a dumb question. What is the return value datatype and the value for the function? Right now I'm running edebug to trace what is going on there to figure this out Thanks, Jose Carsten Dominik wrote: If you get the latest git version, take a look at the variable `org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function'. HTH - Carsten On Jul 25, 2008, at 5:33 AM, Jose Robins wrote: Carsten Dominik wrote: Hi Robin, On Jul 23, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Jose Robins wrote: I've been extensively using column mode in the agenda buffer to plan my day/week. I have columns set up for scheduled and deadline. However, I was wondering if it'd be possible to expose just the time part of the scheduled timestamp as a property so that I could have a column for the time part of the timestamp (without the date). This would allow one to look @ the daily agenda and schedule time for tasks with just that column without bothering about the date (after all I'm already in today's agenda; so there is no need to see the date). This would in principle be possible of course, basically a filter when displaying the column. Hi Carsten, Would this filter be something that would be done on the source end? If so, would you consider adding it? :) The GoogleTech talk has inspired me to start hacking into the source code a bit and contributing back. As a baby step, I'm thinking about modifying the column view to display custom date formats for the date column. Any pointers on getting me going on this? Thanks mucho, Jose But Also if it'd be possible to sort the column view based on that column's contents it'd be great. That way, all the tasks will be sorted based on the time of the day that the task has been scheduled for. I guess I'm trying to use the column view similar to the time grid. This does not make sense becaue column view still uses the outline structure of your file. Why don't you just use the agenda or a timeline view for this? - Carsten Not sure if others' sort of planning methodology would benefit from this or not. I'm open to other ideas that folks may feel is more efficient for achieving this as well. Thanks, Jose ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org mailto:Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Problem with tags
When I do a tag search (C-c \), the headline containing the tag is displayed along with the next headline (which does not contain the tag I was searching for) at that level if there is one. I don't want the next headline displayed. How do I adjust org-mode to stop displaying these undesired headlines? Scott Randby ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Displaying column titles in column view
The section on Column Attributes in the org manual¹ mentions that one can define a title for a column to be used as the header text. Following Egli Christian's example², I defined a column format in a properties drawer as follows: , | :COLUMNS: %40ITEM(Task) %Effort(Estimated Effort){+} ` If I make a tree of tasks and inclued an Effort property in each, entering Column Mode behaves mostly as expected; I can edit the two attributes for each of the tasks situated beneath that properties drawer. One thing I see in the images³ related to the aforementioned example is a header across the top of the column view with the column titles as defined in the format property above. No such header appears when I enter Column Mode here. Is there a special incantation to make the header visible? Footnotes: ¹ http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-attributes.html ² http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/5107/focus=5134 ³ http://cache.gmane.org//gmane/emacs/orgmode/5134-004.bin -- Steven E. Harris ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Displaying column titles in column view
On Jul 27, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Steven E. Harris wrote: The section on Column Attributes in the org manual¹ mentions that one can define a title for a column to be used as the header text. Following Egli Christian's example², I defined a column format in a properties drawer as follows: , | :COLUMNS: %40ITEM(Task) %Effort(Estimated Effort){+} ` If I make a tree of tasks and inclued an Effort property in each, entering Column Mode behaves mostly as expected; I can edit the two attributes for each of the tasks situated beneath that properties drawer. One thing I see in the images³ related to the aforementioned example is a header across the top of the column view with the column titles as defined in the format property above. No such header appears when I enter Column Mode here. Is there a special incantation to make the header visible? No that should happen automatic. What versions of Emacs and org-mode are you using? - Carsten Footnotes: ¹ http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-attributes.html ² http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/5107/focus=5134 ³ http://cache.gmane.org//gmane/emacs/orgmode/5134-004.bin -- Steven E. Harris ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Problem with tags
On Jul 27, 2008, at 10:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I do a tag search (C-c \), the headline containing the tag is displayed along with the next headline (which does not contain the tag I was searching for) at that level if there is one. I don't want the next headline displayed. How do I adjust org-mode to stop displaying these undesired headlines? This is controlled be the variable `org-show-following-heading'. The default in recent versions is nil, the fact that you do see these exposed must mean that you are using an oder version of org-mode, or that you have configured this variable yourself. - Carsten ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Re: Displaying column titles in column view
Carsten Dominik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What versions of Emacs and org-mode are you using? XEmacs version 21.4.21 (Cygwin) Org-mode version 6.06b -- Steven E. Harris ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Re: Displaying column titles in column view
Carsten Dominik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No that should happen automatic. Here's the complete document: * Top :PROPERTIES: :COLUMNS: %40ITEM(Task) %Effort(Estimated Effort){+} :END: ** First :PROPERTIES: :Effort: 2 :END: ** Second :PROPERTIES: :Effort: 3 :END: ** Third :PROPERTIES: :Effort: 40 :END: Pressing C-c C-x C-c, then `c', produces the following layout: attachment: org-columns.png Note also the extra letter in the far-right column, which looks like the first letter of each item. -- Steven E. Harris ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Re: Displaying column titles in column view
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Steven E. Harris wrote: Here's the complete document: * Top :PROPERTIES: :COLUMNS: %40ITEM(Task) %Effort(Estimated Effort){+} :END: ** First :PROPERTIES: :Effort: 2 :END: ** Second :PROPERTIES: :Effort: 3 :END: ** Third :PROPERTIES: :Effort: 40 :END: Pressing C-c C-x C-c, then `c', produces the following layout: Try this: , | :COLUMNS: %40ITEM(Task) %16Effort(Estimated Effort){+} ` Note also the extra letter in the far-right column, which looks like the first letter of each item. Strange. I did not see this when I tried your example. -- Manish ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Problem with tags
Thanks for the solution. I believe that I am using an older version of org-mode. I will upgrade later, but setting the `org-show-following-heading' variable to nil will do for now. Scott Randby Carsten Dominik wrote: On Jul 27, 2008, at 10:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I do a tag search (C-c \), the headline containing the tag is displayed along with the next headline (which does not contain the tag I was searching for) at that level if there is one. I don't want the next headline displayed. How do I adjust org-mode to stop displaying these undesired headlines? This is controlled be the variable `org-show-following-heading'. The default in recent versions is nil, the fact that you do see these exposed must mean that you are using an oder version of org-mode, or that you have configured this variable yourself. - Carsten ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Re: Displaying column titles in column view
Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try this: , | :COLUMNS: %40ITEM(Task) %16Effort(Estimated Effort){+} ` Other than the second column being wider, it produced the same outcome. Strange. I did not see this when I tried your example. Which Emacs variant are you using? -- Steven E. Harris ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Re: Displaying column titles in column view
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Steven E. Harris wrote: Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try this: , | :COLUMNS: %40ITEM(Task) %16Effort(Estimated Effort){+} ` Other than the second column being wider, it produced the same outcome. Strange. I did not see this when I tried your example. Which Emacs variant are you using? I tested on GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) and GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) with latest checkout of Org (commit c542119a.) -- Manish ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] move org item
Sorry, but I cant see it in the manual (rubs eyes) but is it possible to move an item(s) from one org type/file to another file? e.g I have something in my generals tasks file and then want to refile it in my emacs org file. I realise I can refile to another category in the same file using C-c C-w (org-refile). regards r. ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Re: move org item
Richard G Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, but I cant see it in the manual (rubs eyes) but is it possible to move an item(s) from one org type/file to another file? e.g I have something in my generals tasks file and then want to refile it in my emacs org file. I realise I can refile to another category in the same file using C-c C-w (org-refile). I tend to just fold the task, cut it, and paste it in the other file ... followed by refiling it if necessary to the 'right' place in the new file. Maybe there's an easier way I'm unaware of. -Bernt ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Re: move org item
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Bernt Hansen wrote: Richard G Riley writes: Sorry, but I cant see it in the manual (rubs eyes) but is it possible to move an item(s) from one org type/file to another file? e.g I have something in my generals tasks file and then want to refile it in my emacs org file. I realise I can refile to another category in the same file using C-c C-w (org-refile). I tend to just fold the task, cut it, and paste it in the other file ... followed by refiling it if necessary to the 'right' place in the new file. Maybe there's an easier way I'm unaware of. This troubled me a lot as well but I have found following setting to be of good use: (setq org-refile-targets (quote ((org-agenda-files :regexp . * -- Manish ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Reveal Problem
I upgraded my org-mode to 6.06b which took care of the problem of showing undesired headlines after a search, but a new issue has arisen. Say I have the following text: * Grades ** Student 1 *** Exams :exams: Exam scores *** Homework :homework: Homework scores ** Student 2 *** Exams :exams: Exam scores *** Homework :homework: Homework scores If I do 'C-c \ exams' I get the following: * Grades ** Student 1 *** Exams :exams: ** Student 2 *** Exams :exams: If I now hit TAB with the cursor on the third line down, I get this: * Grades ** Student 1 *** Exams :exams: Exam scores *** Homework :homework: ** Student 2 *** Exams :exams: The problem is that I don't want the '*** Homework :homework:' line to be displayed. I've played around with the org-reveal-location customizations, but I can't find any way to stop the display of the unwanted headline. Is there a way to do this? Scott Randby ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode