question about date-tree

question about date-tree

[Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper]

Dear Experts,

I really like the date-tree feature of org-remember and use it to plan
my daily agenda. Often I want to plan things in the future and fill
out an entry for a couple of weeks hence. It's slightly annoying to
try to remember the day of week and date so that it will match the
date-tree format.

Is there a function/utility/suggestion for prepopulating a month's
worth of date-tree daily nodes?

Thanks,
-Emin

Re: question about date-tree

[Eric S Fraga]

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On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:10:49 -0400, "Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper" <emin.shopper@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Experts,
> 
> I really like the date-tree feature of org-remember and use it to plan
> my daily agenda. Often I want to plan things in the future and fill
> out an entry for a couple of weeks hence. It's slightly annoying to
> try to remember the day of week and date so that it will match the
> date-tree format.
> 
> Is there a function/utility/suggestion for prepopulating a month's
> worth of date-tree daily nodes?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Emin
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode

I know this doesn't actually answer your question but what I do is
simply bring up the agenda view and then insert an entry in the right
day using "i d".  This will create a date-tree entry if you've set the
right variable, specifically org-agenda-diary-file to point to the
date-tree file.

However, I also would like org-capture to handle this situation...
for instance, I would sometimes like todo entries that I define with
org-capture to be placed in a date tree structure for either of the
scheduled or deadline dates that todo entry is initially defined with.

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org capture: use org-default-notes-file

[StephenL]

Using the latest and greatest 7.01...

Is it possible to use the variable org-default-notes-file in the org capture settings?

I have a lot of org capture templates and I would rather set the file in one location then have to set it for each template. I would think it is possible with the org-default-notes-file, but no matter how I try to use it in the template it doesn't work. I get errors such as expecting stringp.

See below. I would like to do something similar to the todo entry and not the note entry where I need to explicitly specify the file.

Thanks for any help.

Stephen


;;; Org Capture
(setq org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory "/refile.org"))
     (define-key global-map (kbd "C-c c") 'org-capture)

(setq org-capture-templates 
  '(("t" "todo" entry (file+headline org-default-notes-file "ToDo") "* TODO %?\n  %U\n ")
    ("n" "note" entry (file+headline "/Users/stephen/Dropbox/org/refile.org" "Notes") "* %?\n  %U\n ")
                                     ))

Re: org capture: use org-default-notes-file

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jul 20, 2010, at 3:09 AM, StephenL wrote:

> Using the latest and greatest 7.01...
>
> Is it possible to use the variable org-default-notes-file in the org  
> capture settings?
>
> I have a lot of org capture templates and I would rather set the  
> file in one location then have to set it for each template. I would  
> think it is possible with the org-default-notes-file, but no matter  
> how I try to use it in the template it doesn't work. I get errors  
> such as expecting stringp.
>
> See below. I would like to do something similar to the todo entry  
> and not the note entry where I need to explicitly specify the file.

This should now work.  If the file is either nil (not recommended
because then the customize interface does not work) or the empty string,
org-default-notes-file will be used instead.

- Carsten

>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Stephen
>
>
> ;;; Org Capture
> (setq org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory "/refile.org"))
>     (define-key global-map (kbd "C-c c") 'org-capture)
>
> (setq org-capture-templates
>  '(("t" "todo" entry (file+headline org-default-notes-file "ToDo")  
> "* TODO %?\n  %U\n ")
>    ("n" "note" entry (file+headline "/Users/stephen/Dropbox/org/ 
> refile.org" "Notes") "* %?\n  %U\n ")
>                                     ))
>
>
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- Carsten

Re: question about date-tree

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jul 19, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:10:49 -0400, "Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper"  
> <emin.shopper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Experts,
>>
>> I really like the date-tree feature of org-remember and use it to  
>> plan
>> my daily agenda. Often I want to plan things in the future and fill
>> out an entry for a couple of weeks hence. It's slightly annoying to
>> try to remember the day of week and date so that it will match the
>> date-tree format.

>>
>> Is there a function/utility/suggestion for prepopulating a month's
>> worth of date-tree daily nodes?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Emin
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
>> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
>> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
>
> I know this doesn't actually answer your question but what I do is
> simply bring up the agenda view and then insert an entry in the right
> day using "i d".  This will create a date-tree entry if you've set the
> right variable, specifically org-agenda-diary-file to point to the
> date-tree file.


Well,

this is hard because org-capture places the entry *before* you
get a chance to set those dates.

- Carsten

>
> However, I also would like org-capture to handle this situation...
> for instance, I would sometimes like todo entries that I define with
> org-capture to be placed in a date tree structure for either of the
> scheduled or deadline dates that todo entry is initially defined with.
> -- 
> Eric S Fraga
> GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29  570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D
> _______________________________________________
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> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
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- Carsten

Re: question about date-tree

[Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper]

Below is an elisp function which does the required work. I now call
this function at the beginning of the month so my journal.org file is
pre-populated to make it easier for me to set future todos. You can
also call it for any future month/year combination you want. Feel free
to add it to orgmode or just let people who want it add to their own
system manually.

Thanks again for orgmode!

;;;;; Elisp code follows:

(defun create-dates-for-month-and-year (month year)
  "Create entries in date-tree format in current buffer.

 This function creates nodes for all days in given the given MONTH and YEAR
 in the current buffer (if they do not exist already).

"
  (let ((day 1)
	(max-days (if (= 2 month)
			(if (date-leap-year-p year) 29 28)
		      (nth month
			   (list nil 31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31))))
	)
    (while (<= day max-days)
      (org-datetree-find-date-create (list month day year))
      (setq day (+ 1 day))
      )
    )
  )


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 19, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:10:49 -0400, "Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper"
>> <emin.shopper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Experts,
>>>
>>> I really like the date-tree feature of org-remember and use it to plan
>>> my daily agenda. Often I want to plan things in the future and fill
>>> out an entry for a couple of weeks hence. It's slightly annoying to
>>> try to remember the day of week and date so that it will match the
>>> date-tree format.
>
>>>
>>> Is there a function/utility/suggestion for prepopulating a month's
>>> worth of date-tree daily nodes?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Emin
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
>>> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
>>> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
>>
>> I know this doesn't actually answer your question but what I do is
>> simply bring up the agenda view and then insert an entry in the right
>> day using "i d".  This will create a date-tree entry if you've set the
>> right variable, specifically org-agenda-diary-file to point to the
>> date-tree file.
>
>
> Well,
>
> this is hard because org-capture places the entry *before* you
> get a chance to set those dates.
>
> - Carsten
>
>>
>> However, I also would like org-capture to handle this situation...
>> for instance, I would sometimes like todo entries that I define with
>> org-capture to be placed in a date tree structure for either of the
>> scheduled or deadline dates that todo entry is initially defined with.
>> --
>> Eric S Fraga
>> GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29  570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D
>> _______________________________________________
>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
>> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
>> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
>