Remembering to Org and Planner
Most of my notes are in Emacs Planner. Handy commands like M-x remember help me quickly take notes and write down ideas, saving the text to my blog.
While reading the manual for Org, another PIM for Emacs (yes, another one!), I decided to give it a try. Org uses Remember, the same quick note-taking module that Planner does. I wanted to set up Emacs so that I could remember a note and have it go either to my Planner-based blog or to my notes file.
M-x remember is a two-step procedure. First, Remember sets up the buffer and inserts the annotation. After you write the note and press C-c C-c, Remember passes the note's contents to a handler function. Because Planner and Org have incompatible annotation functions and destinations, I needed to override both.
Here's how I did that:
(defun sacha/remember-to-org ()
(interactive)
(let ((org-directory "~/path/to/my/orgfiles/")
(org-default-notes-file "~/.notes")
(remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
(remember-mode-hook (cons 'org-remember-apply-template
remember-mode-hook)))
(remember)
(set (make-variable-buffer-local 'remember-handler-functions)
'(org-remember-handler))))
(global-unset-key [f9 ?o])
(global-set-key [f9 ?o ?r] 'sacha/remember-to-org)
(global-set-key [f9 ?r ?o] 'sacha/remember-to-org)
I've set up Remember to work with Planner by default:
(setq remember-handler-functions '(remember-planner-append)) (setq remember-annotation-functions planner-annotation-functions) (global-set-key [f9 ?r ?p] 'remember) (global-set-key [f9 ?p ?r] 'remember) (global-set-key (kbd "r SPC") 'remember)
I've added plenty of keyboard shortcuts to see which ones feel the most natural.
I'm looking forward to playing around with this and seeing what works!
Random Emacs symbol: tty-color-define - Function: Specify a tty color by its NAME, terminal INDEX and RGB values.
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