From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: Where to put dates on meeting headlines Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:45:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41155) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chfTp-0003mN-Bz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:45:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chfTm-000487-9f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:45:57 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-x22b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::22b]:34720) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chfTm-000483-4Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:45:54 -0500 Received: by mail-qk0-x22b.google.com with SMTP id s186so46238522qkb.1 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2017 08:45:54 -0800 (PST) In-reply-to: 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" To: "Charles C. Berry" Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist Searching for timestamps is not the issue, it is finding the right time stamp associated with a headline. For example, suppose in the meeting notes I use time stamps to note past or future events, then a headline could have many time stamps, and only one is related to the date of the meeting. Also, if you have logging on, when you mark the meeting done, it will insert an inactive timestamp of when you closed it. What I want to search for is a headline with a meeting tag, and a timestamp on a particular day (even better if a range is possible since I have conferences that are spread over a week for example). I might use this, for example, at the end of the year to find all the scientific conferences I had attended to put in an annual report, or all the committee meetings, etc. I guess the canonical place is probably the deadline, since after that time the meeting should be "done". Then I can generate an agenda with a query like this for meetings in the last two months: meeting+DEADLINE>="<-2m>" Since I had to search for how to do this (probably again ;), here is a PSA on where to find how to do these searches: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.html Charles C. Berry writes: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, John Kitchin wrote: > >> Suppose I use a heading to store notes on a meeting. >> >> Is there a canonical location to put a date so I could search for them >> later? >> >> It seems like the date is not a deadline, or scheduled timestamp. I >> could see putting the date in the headline, but then I do not see an >> obvious way to search for meetings that occurred in a time range. >> Putting the date in the body is another location, but then I do not know >> how it might be searched again. >> >> Another option is a property, which might be searchable at least with a >> function. >> >> What do you do along these lines? >> >> Here is a simple example of a headline I might have, and later I might >> want a report of all meetings in the month of February. >> >> * Group meeting <2017-02-24 Fri> :meeting: >> > > That is a timestamp, albeit one with `:hour-start nil :minute-start nil'. > > Isn't this good enough to search with? > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > (org-element-map > (org-element-parse-buffer) 'timestamp > (lambda(x) > (let > ((beg (org-element-property :begin x)) > (month (org-element-property :month-start x)) > (year (org-element-property :year-start x))) > (format "Year %s Month %s Where %s" year month beg)))) > #+END_SRC > > > #+RESULTS: > | Year 2017 Month 2 Where 18 | > > HTH, > > Chuck -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu