From: Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>
To: T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org-mode for diary writing
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:27:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B01B5B7.5030007@manor-farm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hds1v9$fvn$1@ger.gmane.org>
T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found people are using org-mode for diary writing in recent mlist
> archive, but wasn't able to find such tutorials.
>
> Anyone can enlighten me with such tutorial, which is for org-mode newbies
> and focusing on how to make most use of applicable org-mode features, and
> maybe a bonus "best-practice diary writing with org-mode"?
>
I am not aware of any tutorials. However, at the moment I use remember
with the following template:
("Journal" ?j "* %^U :journal:\n\n** %^{Prompt} %i%&\n %!"
"~/Documents/org/journal/journal_2009.org")
This stores entries as a headline under the date so an entry will look like:
* [2009-11-15 Sun]
:journal:
** Ironbridge Gorge.
Your text goes here.
This doesn't attempt to avoid duplicate date entries from calling the
template twice. If I have already created an entry for that day I simply
open my journal file and append stuff under that heading.
At the end of each month I create a month heading and move each day
under it, like:
* 2009-08 August
** [2009-08-31 Mon]
Fetched More Logs from the Wood.
I keep each year in a separate file. I could make this much more
automated, but it's just as easy to do it manually.
You might also want to see my recent message "[Orgmode] org-datetree
Some Suggestions". Carsten has recently introduced the datetree
directive in remember templates, which should be very useful for
automated diary entries.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-16 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-16 17:26 Org-mode for diary writing T o n g
2009-11-16 20:27 ` Ian Barton [this message]
2009-11-18 2:57 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-11-18 10:09 ` Martin Pohlack
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2009-11-18 20:42 org-mode " Eric S Fraga
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