[Orgmode] suggestion: balance tracking

2009-08-08 Thread Ilya Shlyakhter
A small extension to orgmode would let you track how you're balancing your time among your projects: whether you're spending more than you want on some, and less than you want on others. It would work as follows. For any node you can define a property goal, saying how many todo's you want to

[Orgmode] suggestion: native orgmode XML export (and import?)

2009-08-06 Thread Ilya Shlyakhter
I'm not an emacs-lisp programmer, but I'd like to write scripts (ideally in Python) to generate custom reports from my .org files. What would help a lot, is if there was a command to export an .org file to a native XML format that would mirror the org file's structure and all its logical elements

[Orgmode] suggestion: converting plain lists to subtrees

2009-07-21 Thread Ilya Shlyakhter
A suggestion for a simple but useful command: convert a plain list to a full-blown org subtree. Sometimes I start with a plain list and later realize that it is getting complex and a full-fledged hierarchy is needed. Converting by hand is a pain. It would be great if this could be automated.

[Orgmode] suggestion: latex presentations export

2009-04-24 Thread Ilya Shlyakhter
Orgmode's outline view is natural for creating slideshows / presentations. There are latex packages for creating slideshow presentations ( http://texpower.sourceforge.net/ lists a few ). So it would be great if there was an export mode to export an orgmode subtree as a LaTeX presentation. Each

[Orgmode] Re: filtering timeline view

2009-01-29 Thread Ilya Shlyakhter
, where they would be lisp-compiled and applied to generate the needed agenda. ilya On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Bernt Hansen be...@norang.ca wrote: Ilya Shlyakhter ilya_...@alum.mit.edu writes: Is it possible to filter the timeline view (agenda) by tag and/or by headline regexp? I use

[Orgmode] filtering timeline view

2009-01-28 Thread Ilya Shlyakhter
Is it possible to filter the timeline view (agenda) by tag and/or by headline regexp? I use orgmode for a research notebook, where the outline organizes ideas on various projects and sub-projects. I put timestamps into entries when I work on them, so that I can use the Timeline agenda view to

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