Re: question about writing org-remember templates

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Feb 25, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper wrote:

> Dear Experts,
>
> Thanks for org-mode. It's great!
>
> I have a question about org-remember templates: Is there a way to have
> the heading (i.e., the 5th argument in an org-remember template)
> chosen in a more interactive way? For example, I'd like to do
> something like
>
>       ("TODO" ?t "* TODO %? %^{topic} \n %i\n " "~/org/todo.org"
> "Tasks/^{topic}")
>
> where the topic the user enters will get used in deciding which
> heading to put the item under.
>
>  1. Is this possible?

Yes, use the C-1 prefix when storing the note.  And read

http://orgmode.org/manual/Storing-notes.html#Storing-notes

and also check the docstring of the variable

org-remember-interactive-interface

>  2. Is there a simple hack I can do to the latest version of org-mode
> to do it myself? (Pointers/suggestions to appropriate .el files
> appreciated)
>  3. Can I avoid asking the user for topic multiple times and just
> have the first value entered by the user used in all places?

You can file to the same location as the last time using the C-0  
prefix when storing the note.  All this is also shown in the  
commentary in the remember buffer.


HTH

- Carsten

>
> Thanks,
> -Emin
>
>
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- Carsten