Useful to refile notes to the journal file, which is a
date-tree. org-refile
isn’t convenient to refile stuff to a
date-tree.
(defun my/org-refile-to-journal ()
"Refile an entry to journal file's date-tree"
(interactive)
(require 'org-datetree)
(let ((journal (expand-file-name "journal.org" org-directory))
post-date)
(setq post-date (or (org-entry-get (point) "TIMESTAMP_IA")
(org-entry-get (point) "TIMESTAMP")))
(setq post-date (nthcdr 3 (parse-time-string post-date)))
(setq post-date (list (cadr post-date)
(car post-date)
(caddr post-date)))
(org-cut-subtree)
(with-current-buffer (or (find-buffer-visiting journal)
(find-file-noselect journal))
(save-excursion
(org-datetree-file-entry-under (current-kill 0) post-date)
(bookmark-set "org-refile-last-stored")))
(message "Refiled to %s" journal))
(setq this-command 'my/org-refile-to-journal))
(defun my/org-agenda-refile-to-journal ()
"Refile the item at point to journal."
(interactive)
(let* ((marker (or (org-get-at-bol 'org-hd-marker)
(org-agenda-error)))
(buffer (marker-buffer marker))
(pos (marker-position marker)))
(with-current-buffer buffer
(save-excursion
(save-restriction
(widen)
(goto-char marker)
(org-remove-subtree-entries-from-agenda)
(my/org-refile-to-journal)))))
(org-agenda-redo))
(org-defkey org-agenda-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-S-w") 'my/org-agenda-refile-to-journal)
(org-defkey org-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-S-w") 'my/org-refile-to-journal)
Enjoy!
Update Raam Dev pointed me to an issue and a suggested fix, that I have updated the above code with.