From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Awesome! Date-tree from agenda! Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:00:25 +0000 Message-ID: <874ob57qoy.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44677 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PLXBs-0000r4-B0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:28:29 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PLXBr-0004jI-4f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:28:28 -0500 Received: from vscani-b2.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.135]:55818) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PLXBr-0004ic-0m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:28:27 -0500 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: Nathan Neff Cc: emacs-orgmode Nathan Neff writes: > I've been looking for a way to do quick "journal" entries > for /past/ dates, and was disappointed that the Journal > capture template always used the current date. > > I found out you can go to a date in the agenda, and press "k c", which > will cause any capture-template to use the date in the agenda, not today's date. > This will use the agenda's date when putting journal entries into a > file like this: Thanks for this. I have always been a little frustrated by the limitation you mention above (but obviously not frustrated enough to do anything about it). using the agenda view to accomplish this is perfectly fine! -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1 : using Org-mode version 7.3 (release_7.3.130.g9cc1)