From: Mike Newman <mike@newmanfamily.me.uk>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A much simpler way of handling dependent tasks
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:51:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090127225123.1791771a@newmanfamily.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B9150568-E659-4A3F-AFDE-535437A6EE21@newartisans.com>
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:16:17 -0400
John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> wrote:
> I've been wanting a simple method for managing dependent tasks for
> some time now, and only now did it occur to me that I could just
> implement a much simpler method using your current blocking mechanism.
>
> The attached file, confusingly named org-depends.el, implements the
> following scheme:
>
> 1. Any TODO which has incomplete child TODOs is blocked.
>
> 2. If a parent TODO has the ORDERED property, it's children must be
> completed in order. Undone siblings block later siblings.
>
> 3. Blocked items are greyed out in the agenda list.
>
> John
>
This sounds like a sensible approach that would cover most my needs for
dependencies between TODOs
--
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-27 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-26 21:16 A much simpler way of handling dependent tasks John Wiegley
2009-01-26 23:48 ` Oliver Charles
2009-01-27 1:18 ` Jesse Alama
2009-01-27 6:46 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-27 6:47 ` John Wiegley
2009-01-27 6:47 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-27 7:31 ` John Wiegley
2009-01-27 7:43 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-27 22:51 ` Mike Newman [this message]
2009-01-30 15:02 ` Rainer Stengele
2009-01-30 17:37 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-30 20:07 ` John Wiegley
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