From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Subject: Re: Using org-mode for laboratory notes. Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:09:02 -0700 Message-ID: <87vcf8p1oh.wl%wiskey5alpha@gmail.com> References: <3EBF4F09D06D482C9F7BD50A74669FA8@gmail.com> <20120919170820.GC31853@cardamom.adamsinfoserv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56651) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TEsg6-0000xf-GQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:09:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TEsg5-0001jz-BJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:09:14 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:44739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TEsg5-0001jr-56 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:09:13 -0400 Received: by pbbro12 with SMTP id ro12so7176892pbb.0 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:09:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120919170820.GC31853@cardamom.adamsinfoserv.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org At Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:08:21 -0500, Russell Adams wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 09:15:35AM -0700, Eric Lubeck wrote: > One of my particular concerns is this: I'm accustomed to using a > chronological laboratory notebook for recording all of my data. The > agenda views in org-mode seem to provide a means to retrieve > chronological information out of my outlines, but I would than need > to timestamp every single entry in my outline. Is there a means for > doing this? Currently I am manually typing C-u C-c ! , but it would > be helpful to have something automatically configured to timestamp > and place the time in a drawer for any entry in a particular file. Hello, I have the following setup in order to keep cronological notes. * In my capture templates I have the following : #+begin_src elisp ("j" "Journal entry" entry (file make-journal-file-name ) "* %? :journal:REVIEW: \n %u") #+end_src and I've defined the function like so : #+begin_src elisp (defun make-journal-file-name () (concat "~/Planner/Journal/" (format-time-string "%Y.%m.%d.%a" nil) ".org" ) ) #+end_src That way, to create a new entry I just hit 'C-c c j' which gives me the following : * :journal:REVIEW: [2012-09-20 Thu] in the file ~/Planner/Journal/2012.09.20.Thu.org Please let me know if any of that is unclear. Hope that helps, -T