From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eddward DeVilla" Subject: Re: Duration Tally Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:28:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20070613134706.GA10452@odin.demosthenes.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0iRO-0000kk-BU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:28:34 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0iRJ-0000cy-Jx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:28:33 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0iRJ-0000cc-8l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:28:29 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.234]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0iRH-0003wI-9G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:28:28 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id q3so1625671nzb for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:28:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Scott Jaderholm Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 6/19/07, Scott Jaderholm wrote: > I see a property list under each heading as a way of doing columns, > albeit in a less user friendly way. I can see this being useful > anywhere you have hierarchal data to which you would like to add > structure. Currently, I normally transfer it into a table, but it > would be nice to be able to leave things as a list and still define > some columns. See > http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg > > Perhaps a property list has the advantage of being easier for the > programmers and being a better way to store the data in a text file, > but I think it would be really sweet if an interface were built on top > of it so that the user saw something similar to the picture above. Seems to me you could have an agenda-like view where you give a selection criteria and a list of fields to display. I guess you could wrap it in a table if you like. At this point we'd have invented SQL queries for org-mode. I can't decide yet if I think it's overkill or cool. It seemed cool until I realized it was functionally just a select-where statement. But that is really all I was after. Dynamic reports from all my org-files. Edd