Re: How to get "remember" working properly?

[Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>]

Hi Sharon,

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (setq org-remember-templates
>     '(("Todo" ?t "* TODO %^{Brief Description} %^g\n%?\nAdded: %U" "~/.emacs.d/org/remember.org" "Tasks")
>      ("Journal"   ?j "** %^{Head Line} %U %^g\n%i%?"  "~/.emacs.d/org/journal.org") 
>       ("Clipboard" ?c "** %^{Head Line} %U %^g\n%c\n%?"  "~/.emacs.d/org/remember.org")
>       ("Receipt"   ?r "** %^{BriefDesc} %U %^g\n%?"   "~/.emacs.d/org/finances.org")
>       ("Book" ?b "** %^{Book Title} %t :BOOK: \n%[~/.emacs.d/.book_template.txt]\n"
>          "~/org/journal.org")
>           ("Film" ?f "** %^{Film Title} %t :FILM: \n%[~/.emacs.d/.film_template.txt]\n"
>          "~/org/journal.org")
>       ("Someday"   ?s "** %^{Someday Heading} %U\n%?\n"  "~/.emacs.d/org/someday.org")
>       ("Private" ?p "\n* %^{topic} %T \n%i%?\n" "~/.emacs.d/org/privnotes.org")
>       ("Contact" ?o "\n* %^{Name} :CONTACT:\n% ~/.emacs.d/org/contact.txt]\n"
>                "~/org/privnotes.org")
>      )
>    )
> #+END_SRC

> With everything that I "remember" it shows it as, example only -
>
> * peace [2014-11-18 Tue 11:30] 
>
> i.e. headline before the date. How do I get it the other way round
> please, meaning "date - headline"?

I think all you need to do here is move the "%U" in your templates
before the "%^{ ... }" that represents where you type in the headline.

For example, the "Journal" template becomes:

  ("Journal"   ?j "** %U %^{Head Line} %^g\n%i%?"  "~/.emacs.d/org/journal.org") 
  
See the section on Template Expansion in the Capture section of the
manual for an explanation of what's going on here.

> Also you close the entry by "C-c C-c" which, in my case, calls
> "Tags" again. How can I get it working right in this case please?

Not sure about this -- I don't use remember -- but a good place to start
is to do C-h k C-c C-c in your capture buffer; this will tell you which
function is bound to C-c C-c.  If it's not what you expect, the next
step is to figure out what it should be bound to and set the appropriate
function in the relevant keymap.

Best,
Richard