Newbie Few PlannerMode Questions
Turgut Durduran <durduran <at> yahoo.com>
2009-04-14 21:50:54 GMT
Hello,
I am new to the PlannerMode and I have few questions. Quite a bit of them, I apologize for long message.
1 - Searching: planner-search-notes seem to search on day-pages and not plan pages. It also does not follow
links. I was hoping that it could act as a search for all the "remember" and other information I enter in my
pages and follow links to local files too. i tried muse-search but that also only searches files under the
same directory for the "project". Is there an alternative to that? Ideally, I want it to search all files
linked to the project from any place.
2- Some of my plan pages are under subdirectories. When I use remember, it does not let me write out the note to
the files in the subdirectories - they are not tab-completed. somehow, from the manual, I thought this
might do that, but obviously associating "emacs-wiki" with planner/muse may be wrong? I added the
folllowing to my .emacs file:
;;hopefully this let's planner to go down in the directory tree
(setq emacs-wiki-recurse-directories t)
3- This may be more of muse question but wqhen
I do a "pdf export" it does a single LaTeX run therefore the links are
broken. How do I get it to do multiple runs or "run as many as
necessary"?
4- Can I add colors for output? is there a <color> tag?
5- When I output a muse-journal, it likes to display earliest entries first. I
want to reverse that. I want the newest ones on top. Is that possible?
6- Is there a way to generate an output , possibly a graphical one (may be with
graphviz?) that would show which file is linked to what file etc?
7- I followed a tip from a web-site so I can hit a key-combination anywhere in GNOME and run a small window in
remember-mode to take a note. so I added the following to my .emacs .. The tip gave it for "org-mode" so I
edited it (see below lines marked ";TD"). It works, I can now add my note to plan page. but it only works if
emacs-server is already running. is there an alternative to that? Am doing the right thing?
;;http://metajack.im/2008/12/30/gtd-capture-with-emacs-orgmode/
;; to have a small remember window open from anywhere
(defadvice remember-finalize (after delete-remember-frame activate)
"Advise remember-finalize to close the frame if it is the remember frame"
(if (equal "remember" (frame-parameter nil 'name))
(delete-frame)))
(defadvice remember-destroy (after delete-remember-frame activate)
"Advise remember-destroy to close the frame if it is the rememeber frame"
(if (equal "remember" (frame-parameter nil 'name))
(delete-frame)))
;; make the frame contain a single window. by default org-remember
;; splits the window.
(add-hook 'remember-mode-hook
'delete-other-windows)
(defun make-remember-frame ()
"Create a new frame and run org-remember."
(interactive)
(make-frame '((name . "remember") (width . 80) (height . 10)))
(select-frame-by-name "remember")
;;TD next line by TD
(planner-goto-today)
;;TD next line by TDD
(remember 'remember-planner-add-xref))
;; TD original was this
;; (org-remember))
8- I use multiple computers (~4) with slightly different directory structures. I keep my latest working
notes, important stuff in a common *relative* path (upto a degree). Is it possible to get annotations,
auto-links etc use relative paths instead of absolute? I mean, if I remember something while working on a
document and I add the note to the day-page, I want the link the original document to be relative. I tried the
following but that did not do the job
;;use relative paths
(setq planner-annotation-use-relative-file t)
9- What is the common choice for Palm-Pilot and/or Evolution syncronization. It seems like one way is to
load up the .ics from evolution (which I only use for palm-syncing) and importat that to planner-diary.
but what happens if I change something on my palm?
10- When I link to a pdf file, [[mypdf.pdf]] , when I follow the link I end up opening the pdf as a text file. I was
hoping it will use mailcap or some such to run a pdf viewer. Can I control this somehow?
Thanks a lot for your time and help.
Turgut