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'Cause I do that a lot!

Since they're what you should be looking at first.

Turns out I'm less interested in a moment when something happened, and more interested in a time during which a thing was happening. Org-mode has a [2017-04-10 Mon 15:16]--[2017-04-10 Mon 15:17] interval idiom, and right now you almost never use * <...> style timestamps, so you could maybe just scrap them for a different event syntax if you wanted to.

After a year (!) here's how I use Coach

• As a greppable database of miscellany
• As a record of interesting historical events and conversations
• For "hyper-local" TODO lists (generally when snowed under, or when I have a large volume of small tasks)
• As a "what's happening now" current events log

I want

• Some sort notion of "current"-ness for entries
• Easy searching by half-remembered fragments
• The ability to edit entries, as the associated facts change
• But dates are a nice-to-have, too

The database of stuff is small (small enough that just grepping through a pile of files has worked just fine up until now) but is sort of precious, it'd be a bummer to lose it.

Figure out if you can reproduce this, and if you can, then fix it.

Just a workflow note, this'd be nice.