From: Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel@nomaden.org>
To: Desmond Rivet <desmond_news@videotron.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GTD and adding next actions under projects with remember
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:30:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090909153030.GA5318@taupan.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdjsl45e.fsf_-_@zinc.branchcut.ath.cx>
Hi!
Let me give a bit of feedback on the aspect of "I'm implementing GTD".
I do it a bit differently:
* Projects are trees (or sub-trees) which have a :Project: Tag
attached to them. They never have a TODO keyword of any kind.
* Waiting-For items are tracked with a :WAITING: Tag. They never have
a TODO keyword of any kind.
* Only next actions get a todo keyword of TODO (or maybe DOING if
they are work in progress)
* Every tag is a potential context for me. The nice thing is that org
let's me combine them, e.g. :Bob:Phone:
* I use org's priority cookies exclusively as importance, ranging
from A - C.
That way I can see a list of next actions immediately by typing C-a a
t, ordered by importance. With your system I fail to see how you can
get quick access to your next action list.
I also get a project list by typing C-a a p (tag match, with
tag-inheritance turned off), also ordered by priority.
Even though I keep todos, projects and reference material in one file
together, org-mode allows me to quickly filter by TODO (== Next Action
List) :Project: (== Project List) and any other Tag (== Context).
I also use active timestamps to designate tickler dates and :SCHEDULE:
and :DEADLINE: cookies for the "hard landscape" of the day.
Desmond Rivet schrieb:
> The problem is that I have to specify a heading for the template in
> org-remember-templates in the .emacs file. This is okay when I want to
> jot down a new project, waiting item or *generic* next action, because
> all these items have fixed headings, but I don't know how to make this
> work when I don't know the heading ahead of time (remember that next
> actions associated with projects live under the project heading).
---Zitatende---
Sorry for not helping with your particular problem (It looks like you
might want to use C-1 C-c C-c or something like that), but:
It sounds like you're mixing up collecting and processing. You only
need to fill out the full context in the processing phase. At least I
use the remember interface for quickly jotting down a note, then get
back to work. The stuff I "remember" just goes into a Collect.org
file, which I later process as an inbox.
--
Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel@nomaden.org>
TauPan on Ircnet and Freenode ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-09 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-08 18:14 Prefixing a function call with C-digit Raffi R
2009-09-09 0:42 ` Haroldo Stenger
2009-09-09 0:44 ` Raffi R
2009-09-09 11:59 ` GTD and adding next actions under projects with remember Desmond Rivet
2009-09-09 12:25 ` Paul Mead
2009-09-09 15:30 ` Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs [this message]
2009-09-10 0:23 ` Desmond Rivet
2009-09-09 23:20 ` Matt Lundin
2009-09-09 12:39 ` Prefixing a function call with C-digit Carsten Dominik
2009-09-09 14:23 ` Peter Westlake
2009-09-09 14:33 ` Raffi R
2009-09-11 11:41 ` Feature request: org-agenda-store-link Peter Westlake
2009-09-12 5:06 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-09-12 9:42 ` Peter Westlake
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