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Hello!

Since I spend most of my day on the bus, I have a lot of time to read. Do you have any book recommendations for learning Emacs? I plan to use Emacs as a text editor for note taking and programming in general.

Hey gang, so I've been attempting to create a more organized way to capture daily tasks in with org-capture and I'm having trouble figuring out the best way to do so.

The structure I want is the following:

```

• [%] <2023-11-10> ** [ ] #[A] Some title for a task due today :work: DEADLINE: <2023-11-10> ```

The idea would be:

1. If a top level heading for today's date doesn't exist, create it and create a subheading
2. If a top level heading for today's date does exist, simply just add a subheading.

At first, I had a function I tried to use that didn't work the way I wanted when I first wrote it. In retrospect, I don't know why I thought it would.

Then I tried using capture templates but that doesn't meet the requirements.

In rewriting the function I linked to previously, this is what I have so far:

emacs-lisp (defun org-capture::today-task-tree () "Create a task tree for tasks TODO today." (let* ((time-string (format-time-string "<%Y-%m-%d %a>" (current-time))) (heading-rx (rx (group "[" (0+ num) "%]") (0+ space) (group (literal time-string)))) (heading (concat "[%] " time-string))) (goto-char (point-max)) (if-let (pnt (re-search-backward heading-rx nil t)) (progn (goto-char pnt) (end-of-line) (insert "\n") (insert "** [ ] ") (beginning-of-line 0)) (goto-char (point-max)) (or (bolp) (insert "\n")) (insert "* " heading "\n") (beginning-of-line 0)))))))

Any suggestions? I just learned out the Org Mapping API but I'm not entirely sure if that'll suit my needs.