From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: records-mode ? Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:37:41 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <8763wkoz7e.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <200802190200.m1J202tc009788@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203493238 2858 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2008 07:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:40:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 20 08:41:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JRjZd-000137-W9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:41:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRjZ9-0000Z2-67 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!216.168.2.165!sn-xt-sjc-05!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XuIYpFGgjh4iyPUYfbURzgQVdzE= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 73 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156324 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51696 Archived-At: Xavier Maillard writes: > > Does it have something like an index of notes to quickly know > where to retrieve a note/information ? This is a major > requirement for me. In records-mode, pressing C-c C-j, I have an > index buffer which shows a list of keywords and the respective > notes entries (There is something close to this in notes-mode). > > The big no-no about records-mode and notes-mode currently is that > they seem "dead" and unmaintained. > > As Bastien said, maybe I am misusing Org. Maybe Org is really > what I want but concentrating only on the note taking aspect and > not using planning/todo handling. > > As far as I remember, org-mode and remember has turned out very > good combination by the past _but_, I always feel lost when it > comes to « searching » informations -ie. I do not like the search > process. > Sounds to me like you could get very close to what you want by using org modes tags facility. It has fairly sophisticated tag based searching and displaying etc. > What I need, if I go back to Org, is a setup like this: > > #1. One note page per day classified ala notes-mode (and I also > want to have the possibility to have notes not related to dates > -ie. independant notes (by, say, subject) > #2. An index of all my note entries (with quick search on > keywords, tags, etc.) > #3. I want to be able to narrow on a note entry (this is easy in > every mode I have tried) > #4. navigation facilities to previous/next day (as is done by > records-mode and notes-mode). This is an important point for > my job position. > > Free form notes taking is, off course, a _must have_ for me. > It sounds to me like planner mode would be close to what you want. What you outline is very close to how I work with planner mode. I have the planner day pages and it has support for moving around - previous day, next day etc. I have various project pages with notes and tasks for each project. When I schedule a task, it appears in the day page once the date it has been scheduled for comes around. this gives me the best of both worlds. I have day pages that I can use to check what I did or will have to do on a specific day, but I also have project pages that I can check to get an overview of the tasks and notes relating to a specific project. I also use the time clocking facilities so that in my day pages, I get an overview of where I spent time for that day and in the project pages, I get an overview of how I've spent time on that project. I use remember to make notes. A copy of the note is put on the day page and one in the project page for the project I specify I've not used the search capabilities of planner mode much, so can't comment on it. However, the combination of planner mode with a few of the advanced config options is a very powerful system. I also use org mode, but I mainly use it for organising my thoughts on a specific topic - often mainly as an outliner as I prefer the planning and scheduling approach of planner mode. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au