From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: FR: make C-c C-c for storing remember notes optional
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:18:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <28AAA740-13D2-42CD-8FF0-F383652D530B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071211121511.GA12375@atlantic.linksys.moosehall>
On Dec 11, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 12:33:09PM +0100, Bastien wrote:
>> Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> writes:
>>> I'm certainly not suggesting making it the default - only to make it
>>> possible to enable this behaviour for selected remember templates.
>>> But since I get SO many emails every day, I really need to be able
>>> to
>>> apply the 2-minute rule of GTD: if the mail requires > 2 minutes of
>>> attention, I need to be able to convert it into a TODO (linking by
>>> message id via the org-mairix stuff) and archive it safely in the
>>> _absolute_minimum_ number of keystrokes. Otherwise I am
>>> constantly in
>>> the "processing" phase of the workflow and never get to the
>>> "planning"
>>> and "doing" phases - then the whole system fails miserably :-)
>>
>> Okay. Then each template would have now six elements, the last one
>> specifiying whether it should be automatically processed or not
>> (being
>> nil by default).
>
> Yes, that's what I had in mind too.
>
>> Whether there are %^{prompt} constructs might be not relevant here:
>> even
>> for plain templates we might want not to have to C-cC-c them for
>> them to
>> be remembered, right?
>
> Agreed.
>
>> Say for example that you have a template associated with the key
>> "m" and
>> this key binding:
>>
>> (global-set-key [(control meta r)] (lambda () (org-remember nil
>> "m")))
>>
>> The "m" template doesn't require C-cC-c. If there is %^{prompt}
>> you do
>> C-M-r then interactively enter the info at the prompt, then you're
>> done.
>> If there is no %^{prompt} you just C-M-r and you're done (you don't
>> need
>> to actually *see* what you want to remember...)
>
> Yes, exactly.
>
>> I think this would be nice. But I guess you see my point about
>> cancelling : with a %^{prompt} it's possible to C-g, but not when
>> there
>> is no %^{prompt} -- which might be a bit dangerous..
>
> It doesn't seem particularly dangerous to me: you still have the
> option of 'undo' within the destination file, and even if you choose
> not to, at worst you have a new entry which you can later delete.
> It's not like you're at risk of losing existing data.
>
>> I hope Carsten will soon stumble on this :)
>
> /me sends good system restoration karma to Carsten over the ether :-)
>
Thanks, I am getting there.
God ideas in this thread, I will put them in. I guess the best way
would be to have
%^{prompt|default|completion2|....}
to define prompt, default value and a completion table, and then
to keep a per-prompt history.
- Carsten
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-13 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-09 12:44 FR: make C-c C-c for storing remember notes optional Adam Spiers
2007-12-10 15:22 ` Bastien
2007-12-10 22:20 ` Adam Spiers
2007-12-11 11:33 ` Bastien
2007-12-11 12:15 ` Adam Spiers
2007-12-11 14:38 ` Bastien
2007-12-13 21:18 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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