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From: Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>
Subject: org-datetree Some Suggestions
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To: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>

This is a really nice addition to org. However, I have a couple of 
suggestions which I think might improve it.

At the moment dates are inserted as plain text. It would nice to have an 
option to insert the date as either an active or inactive date. Perhaps 
if there was a remember variable the user could simply surround it with 
either "[" or "<" as appropriate. Or maybe there is a better way?

At the moment the date formats are hard coded. It would be nice if there 
was a date format variable that the user could set, with some sensible 
default (like the current one).

Ian.