Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-14 Thread Bastien
Hi John, I added the option `org-datetree-add-timestamp'. You can (setq org-datetree-add-timestamp 'inactive) then use C-c / on date trees to look for entries with inactive time stamps. HTH, -- Bastien

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Pohlack
On 12.08.2012 17:48, John Hendy wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Bastien b...@gnu.org wrote: Hi John, John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: Date trees are the obvious way to be able to do this, but they don't have any of the neat search functionality that I know of. Can you

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-13 Thread Jambunathan K
I am wondering why people aren't using org-element.el to extract intelligence from org buffers. We seem to be living in 2011s. It is already 2012. --

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-13 Thread Bastien
Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com writes: I am wondering why people aren't using org-element.el to extract intelligence from org buffers. We seem to be living in 2011s. It is already 2012. org-element.el is not yet part of a release. It is only available from the git repository. The

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-12 Thread John Hendy
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Bastien b...@gnu.org wrote: Hi John, John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: Date trees are the obvious way to be able to do this, but they don't have any of the neat search functionality that I know of. Can you describe the search functionality you would

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-11 Thread Bastien
Hi John, John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: Date trees are the obvious way to be able to do this, but they don't have any of the neat search functionality that I know of. Can you describe the search functionality you would like for date-trees? I'm not sure I groked it. Thanks, --

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-10 Thread Bastien
Hi Jack, Jack Erwin j...@jugband.net writes: So, a couple of questions: 1) Is this a sane approach? My elisp is average at best, and the org-mode devs could probably think of a more graceful way to do this. I don't know. If I were you, I would give Org a little more time before trying to

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-10 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Jack Erwin j...@jugband.net writes: Hello Jack: I am in the process of trying out org-mode after a long stint with planner.el. The most obvious difference here is that planner.el uses day pages that keep a running list of tasks versus the more dynamic nature of org which collects them from

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-10 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Charles Philip Chan cpc...@bell.net writes: The key here is really to take some time to set up your Agenda Views and Capture Templates. Oops, forgot to mention tags. You should think about and setup your tags too. They are great for searching. Charles pgpnvVOisgRUL.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-10 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Bastien b...@gnu.org wrote: Hi Jack, Jack Erwin j...@jugband.net writes: So, a couple of questions: 1) Is this a sane approach? My elisp is average at best, and the org-mode devs could probably think of a more graceful way to do this. I don't know. If

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-10 Thread Jonathan Leech-Pepin
Hi, On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:46 AM, John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Bastien b...@gnu.org wrote: Hi Jack, Jack Erwin j...@jugband.net writes: So, a couple of questions: 1) Is this a sane approach? My elisp is average at best, and the org-mode devs

[O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-09 Thread Jack Erwin
Hello, I am in the process of trying out org-mode after a long stint with planner.el. The most obvious difference here is that planner.el uses day pages that keep a running list of tasks versus the more dynamic nature of org which collects them from a set of arbitrary .org files. While I like