Friday, July 22, 2005

Date Macro$, posting

The new date macros make it easier to navigate the generated calendar and to create references to the days, months, years, quarters, cycles and weeks in the calendar.

Note that the only difference between $cd and $ci is the form of the reference generated--they both create references to the same day LSec.

Now the big question. Do you create a consolidated journal in the calendar cabinet, or do you create topic or project-specific journals? In the latter case, you can always access all items which contain a reference to a particular day by using the cit command.

But this is an either/or choice which should not be! There is a big hole in the CSWiki--making copies. The proper rolonic term is posting, as in posting a journal to a ledger. Best practice would be to "journal" everything in the calendar and then post to the appropriate "ledgers".

Posting is likely the next thing to be worked on, and will no doubt be helpful in a wide range of activities. But notice first the interesting difference between having the same Page in more than one Folder and putting a copy of a Page in another Folder.

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