Re: on picking diary-style timestamps or normal timestamps when adding agenda entries (was: [BUG] org-agenda-list takes 4m compared to 27 that took 15 seconds [9.5.2 (release_9.5.2-25-gaf6f12 @ /usr/share/emacs/28.1/lisp/org/)])

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

andrés ramírez <rrandresf@hotmail.com> writes:

> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ** PE etiro.espiritual {collaborator.family} :DAVID:
> :PROPERTIES:
> :CATEGORY: da.santi
> :END:
> <2022-09-24 Sat 9:00-11:00>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> That above is an equivalent example using normal timestamps.
>
> On my use case. I have seven categories on this file
> for example: chores, work, home, family. I add entries for all this
> categories every week (I just try to add entries once a week if possible
> on the weekends).
>
> In case I pick normal timestamps I would need to yank 5 lines and edit 2
> lines one at the top and other at the bottom of the yanked region. On my
> current worflow using diary-style timestamps I just need to add a line
> at the bottom and edit that line.

Not at all.
You can as well do

* PE
:PROPERTIES:
:CATEGORY: da.santi
:END:
** <2022-09-24 Sat 9:00-11:00> etiro.espiritual {collaborator.family} :DAVID:
** <2022-09-27 Tue> Another entry to be displayed in agenda. It inherits parent category

> The advantage of using normal timestamps is I could append the line at
> the end of the file. On diary-style timestamps I should do occur for the
> category and after it C-c C-n for appending at the end of the current subtree.

Note org-refile command. See "9.1 Refile and Copy" section of Org manual.

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