[Orgmode] Re: Loosing tasks with remember

[Christian Zang]

Thanks, Bernt,

ok, invoking remember a couple of times in sequence is what I wanted to avoid 
in the first place, but  refiling a complete tree is a good idea and might work 
for my purposes.

Cheers,
Christian

Am 14.04.2010 um 03:55 schrieb Bernt Hansen:

> Christian Zang <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Dear org-enthusiasts,
>> 
>> I have a remember template to file away quick notes and todos that looks like
>> 
>> (setq org-remember-templates
>>      '(("Todo" ?t "*** TODO %?\n %i\n" "~/Org/inbox.org" "Inbox")))
>> 
>> When a invoke a remember buffer and write something like
>> 
>> *** TODO Task 1
>> 
>> *** TODO Task 2
>> 
>> and file it away in my inbox.org file using C-c C-c everything is fine, but 
>> when I choose a different headline (level 2) via C-1 C-c C-c, only the first 
>> of the two tasks will get filed under the chosen headline, the other one 
>> disappears.
>> 
>> Is this the intended behaviour? Or am I overlooking an important variable, 
>> or lies the problem in my template? If so, what can I do to change my setup, 
>> so that every task will get filed under the chosen headline?
>> 
>> I am using the latest org-mode (pulled from git 10 min ago) with emacs 23.1 
>> on Mac OS X 10.6. 
>> 
>> Thanks!
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
> Yes this is intended behaviour (sort of).  Remember mode is designed for
> one task three per filing operation.  I think it files multiple tasks in
> the default save configuration but if you file to a target only the
> first task is filed.
> 
> To work around this I would either invoke remember multiple times, one
> for each task or provide a parent task to hold your multiple TODO
> entries like this
> 
> * TODO refile task
> ** TODO Task 1
> ** TODO Task 2
> 
> then you refile the entire tree to the target destination.
> 
> HTH,
> Bernt
> 
> 
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