{"id":10772,"date":"2022-08-29T12:50:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10772"},"modified":"2022-08-30T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T21:00:51","slug":"quick-capture-of-project-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10772","title":{"rendered":"Quick Capture of Project Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Simon has a nice example of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogbyben.com\/2022\/07\/emacs-for-project-notes-quick-capture.html\">leveraging Emacs to solve a problem and reduce his workflow friction<\/a>. During his video calls he would bring up a notepad file to capture his notes and share them with his the other callers as a sort of whiteboard. The problem was that he ended up with a mishmash of files with ambiguous names that made organizing his notes difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Like me, one day he realized this process was silly and he decided to move the task to Emacs. He determined he should file his notes in a file hierarchy along the lines of <code>notes\/customer\/project\/date.md<\/code>. Simon\u2019s desired process is to invoke a single function that will bring up a in the desired hierarchy. That means he needs to determine<\/p>\n<ol class=\"org-ol\">\n<li>His current customer<\/li>\n<li>That customer\u2019s project<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s date<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Simon shows how he determines those parameters. The date, of course, is easy but the others are a little bit tricky, especially since he\u2019s using both Git and Subversion to host his project files. Still, it takes just a little bit of Elisp to bring up the required file. His post is worth taking a look at just to see how he interacts with his file hierarchy to get the information needed to accomplish the task.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b> <span class=\"timestamp-wrapper\"><span class=\"timestamp\">[2022-08-30 Tue 16:57]<\/span><\/span>: Added link to Simon\u2019s post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Simon has a nice example of leveraging Emacs to solve a problem and reduce his workflow friction. During his video calls he would bring up a notepad file to capture his notes and share them with his the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10772\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-10772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10777,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions\/10777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}