Sometimes an instance of a periodic tasks requires individual subtasks. In this
case, refiling there is very helpful. In other cases, the extra entries should
not be disturbing too much, I think … I hope.
Include all headlines in Org agenda files and as well as all extra text search
files in interactive selections. To make this more managable, introduce a
dedicated function to query the user for a target item.
The main entry point is now `db/org-find-links-to-current-item', which decides
how to obtain the ID and CUSTOM_ID of the item to look for. The main work is
done by `db/org-find-items-linking-to-id', which does some checks, build the
query, and then calls `org-search-view' (which, indeed, does the actual work).
Users should call `db/org-find-links-to-current-item' only.
Neither logging information not tasks should be part of that file, so keeping it
in `org-agenda-files' is not really necessary. Indeed, it has only been
included in there to allow `org-search-view' to search that file. However, with
using `org-agenda-text-search-extra-files' makes this approach obsolete.
Previously, we only copied the last element in the subtree, assuming that this
encompasses all of the content of the subtree. However, this is not true, and
thus we have to do something more elaborate. Now, starting from the end of the
subtree, we go up all elements in the subtree until we reach either the headline
or a drawer. Everything in between is copied as template to the current
location.
The shortcut in the frequently-used menu now points there, and not anymore to
the dedicated home and work files. If only a single main Org Mode file is used,
this variable should be sufficient.
If separate things should be done, generate a separate item for it, or leave
some note at the corresponding series element. Periodic tasks are quite rigid
and should not be used for collecting individual subtasks.
As described in [1], we are sometimes representing recurring tasks as lists of
single tasks plus a recurring task to create new instances once in a while. All
of this is grouped under a common headline, and those headlines should be marked
with PERIODIC to inhibit automatic clock-in.
[1]: https://karl-voit.at/2017/01/15/org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift/
RFC documents do not change over time. The custom org mode link handler
`db/org-rfc-open' now makes use of this by downloading RFC documents to
`db/rfc-cache-path' (if defined) and opening the files locally. If
`db/rfc-cache-path' is not defined, the RFC is opened in an external browser as
before.
This allows to keep a selection of used RFC documents locally on the filesystem
for future reference, without the need to retrieve them again from the IETF.
Since this is all org mode related, the handler now also resides in `db-org'
instead of `db-utils'.
The setter will now complain if the file to be added to `org-agenda-files' does
not exist and is not readable. It also now uses the proper functions from `org'
to update `org-agenda-files'.
For this a new function ‘timeline-tools-clockline-no-org-agenda-conflicts’ as
been added that reads in a clock line (start and end times), updates all org
agenda files to fix conflicting clock lines, and returns the string of the new
clock line. This works for all complete clock lines (i.e., those with end
times), but not for open clock lines (i.e., those missing an end timestamp).
Up to now, ‘org-agenda-files’ only consisted of the four variables customizable
in init.el, namly ‘db/org-default-work-file’, ‘db/org-default-home-file’,
‘db/org-default-notes-file’, and ‘db/org-default-refile-file’. However, this
meant that no *additional* agenda files were possible, like including multiple
files for notes. This should not be the case any longer.
This is achieved by moving the variable definitions to use-packages’ :init
blocks, and allowing ‘db/run-init’ to override these definitions by calling
‘load-file’ on custom.el afterwards.
Also inlined some definitions from my custom.el file back into init.el
This is a major change in the semantics of this tag: NOP now does not designated
whole projects anymore, but only headlines that should not considered by
themselves as projects. Consequently, sub-headlines of NOP-tagged headlines can
by projects on their own, and also show up as stuck projects if they are so.
Daniel -