From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@novell.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Use case of TIMESTAMP, SCHEDULED and DEADLINE
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:21:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1144668069.8041.87.camel@elrond.novell.com> (raw)
Hi all
I live in Org-Agenda Week mode. This is where I look at my tasks for
today and for the rest of the week.
So the typical use case for me is that I take notes for a certain
project, let's say I have in my desktop-project.org
* Desktop Training
** Call Trainer
clarify the content of the training
** Setup training room
** prepare desktop machines
** Training is on April 18th
As you can see I mix notes and tasks. Ok, now the first three are tasks
so I C-c C-t on them which changes desktop-project.org as follows:
* Desktop Training
** TODO Call Trainer
clarify the content of the training
** TODO Setup training room
** TODO prepare desktop machines
** Training is on April 18th
I know that the training is on the 18th so I need to do the tasks this
week, so I schedule them for sometime this week, so I do a couple of C-c
C-s. Note that I do not use DEADLINE, as I schedule the tasks so that
they will be done before the deadline. If I now look at my Org-Agenda I
see the following:
ALL CURRENTLY OPEN TODO ITEMS:
desktop-project:TODO Call Trainer
desktop-project:TODO Setup training room
desktop-project:TODO prepare desktop machines
work: TODO Write Article
Monday 10 April 2006
desktop-project:Scheduled: TODO Call Trainer
Tuesday 11 April 2006
desktop-project:Scheduled: TODO prepare desktop machines
work:Scheduled: TODO Write Article
Wednesday 12 April 2006
desktop-project:Scheduled: TODO Setup training room
Thursday 13 April 2006
Friday 14 April 2006
Saturday 15 April 2006
Sunday 16 April 2006
Now in the week overview I can see that I also plan to write an article
on Tuesday. This will leave me no time to prepare the desktop machines
so I reschedule this task to Wednesday by S-right on the task.
As soon as I've called the trainer I press `t' on the "Call Trainer"
Task and this marks the task as DONE.
So far everything is fine. But there are a couple of questions:
1. What is the use case of TIMESTAMP? I seem to only have a use for
SCHEDULED, so marking them as "Scheduled:" in the Org-Agenda
Week mode is superfluous for me. What do other people use it
for?
2. I would like tasks that are scheduled to no longer show up as
"CURRENTLY OPEN TODO ITEMS". For me open items are items that
have not been scheduled yet and that I need to schedule.
3. The sorting of items within a day is a mystery to me. I would
like to sort them by state (TODO, DONE) and priority. Sorting by
priority seems to work for the CURRENTLY OPEN TODO ITEMS but not
for a specific day. I modified the to '(time-up priority-down),
but it still sorts by category for the days. I tried to debug
this but did not find my way around the code
((org-finalize-agenda-entries).
4. When doing some mucking around the code should I use org-mode
from Emacs CVS or the one from Carstens Website?
Thanks
--
Christian Egli, Senior Consultant
Novell (Schweiz) AG, Leutschenbachstrasse 41, 8050 Zürich
Tel. +41 43 299 75 46 direct, Tel. +41 43 299 78 00, Fax: +41 43 299 75 01
next reply other threads:[~2006-04-10 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-10 11:21 Christian Egli [this message]
2006-04-10 12:46 ` Use case of TIMESTAMP, SCHEDULED and DEADLINE Carsten Dominik
2006-04-10 18:28 ` Austin Frank
2006-04-11 10:30 ` Carsten Dominik
2006-04-11 13:45 ` Christian Egli
2006-04-12 4:38 ` Carsten Dominik
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