Re: [Orgmode] Automatic Update of Org files

2009-02-06 Thread David Thole
Something I've been working on and am continuing to work on is kinda a middleware script like what you're doing. It's in python now - and have a few who contacted me personally who are interested in this once I get the refactor complete. Basically what I've done is try to merge stuff in from our

Re: [Orgmode] Automatic Update of Org files

2009-02-06 Thread Mark Elston
David, This sound interesting and similar to what I am doing. I didn't want to have to parse the Org file but it may be that I have no choice in the matter. I may be able to make some of this easier on myself by putting all (or most) generated information in a block of some kind that allows me

Re: [Orgmode] Automatic Update of Org files

2009-02-06 Thread Manish
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Mark Elston wrote: [...] My biggest concern is keeping any notes I add to items I have extracted from these various sources during an update process. I tried the org-registry package mentioned by Samuel but it didn't load and initialize. I haven't had a

Re: [Orgmode] Automatic Update of Org files

2009-02-06 Thread Mark Elston
Manish, I actually have it printed out and am going through it. One of the reasons I would prefer to keep notes *with* the entries I generate is that I would like to eventually export both the entries and notes to a file I can print out and take with me to meetings. Either LaTeX export or text

Re: [Orgmode] Automatic Update of Org files

2009-02-06 Thread William Henney
Mark On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Mark Elston m.els...@advantest-ard.com wrote: You say you are using Python. I have used Perl since I found a SOAP package for Perl and I haven't seen one for Python and I need it for accessing TestTrack. I would prefer Python otherwise.

[Orgmode] Automatic Update of Org files

2009-02-05 Thread Mark Elston
Its amazing what you can do with this package! I have weekly meetings I attend where we take a look at different sources of status information. We have an action item list in an Excel file, an issue tracking list in Test Track (from Seapine Software) and a project schedule in Microsoft Project.

Re: [Orgmode] Automatic Update of Org files

2009-02-05 Thread Samuel Wales
IIUC, source is not under your complete control. You need it orgified but also annotated. There are various annotation mechanisms. My comments on the remember redesign might be relevant. You could consider going backward. Have your org file contain links to the read-only stuff. Put entry IDs

Re: [Orgmode] Automatic Update of Org files

2009-02-05 Thread Mark Elston
Samuel, Thanks for the info. I will have to digest this and see if it fits. One concern I have with this approach (and I may not have fully grasped what you intended) is that the original source files have the current information like deadlines, etc that I want used when creating my agenda for