Please Add TimeStamp Shortcup

[pottier.fabrice]

Dear Agenda Team,

Do you think it is possible to add a Timestamp (date + hours) shortcut ?

Thank you for your reply.
Fabrice

[mekentosj]

Hi Fabrice,

We have some ideas in this direction. In the mean time this article talks about an alternative solution you could use in the mean time:

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[anke]

Hello, I would like to restart the topic of pottier.fabrice.
I use Agenda among other things to structure my daily tasks and therefore also to record how long I have worked on a task (for accounting purposes).
So far I always type in the current time (hh:mm) manually. Can this be automated with a shortcut?

Or has it already been implemented and I just didn’t notice it?

Many thanks in advance!
Anke

[mekentosj]

You’ll be very pleased to hear that the upcoming version 11 update (currently in beta) will bring support for timestamps as described here:

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Template Placeholders and Text Actions Text Actions in Agenda allows you to type short commands that upon completion get dynamically converted and expanded into plain text. Think about it as a quick way to trigger an action like typing \remind to insert a reminder or \date to insert the current date. Text Actions work in both normal notes and templates. In addition, Agenda also supports a set of template-specific Text Actions, a kind of special placeholders in your templates that get replaced …