From: Viktor Rosenfeld <listuser36@googlemail.com>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What do you use to identify projects (in the GTD sense)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:29:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111212182955.GB46849@kenny.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wra2eorn.fsf@norang.ca>
Hi Bernt,
sorry, I wasn't more specific. My problem is with projects that consist
of subprojects and simple tasks. Consider the following scenario:
* TODO Project
** TODO Subproject A
*** NEXT Task A1
*** TODO Task A2
** NEXT Task B
** TODO Task C
** TODO ...
Task B and C have to be done in order. However, Subproject A is somewhat
independent and can be done in parallel, while working on Task B and C.
When I mark Task B as DONE, the Project is still unstuck because of the
a NEXT task in Subproject A. Meaning that I never get to schedule Task C
or any following tasks until I'm done with Subproject A.
One solution to this problem would be to trigger a state change in Task
C automatically when Task B is done. But I'm afraid that is too much
setup and also not flexible enough. Often, when I consider a stuck
project I schedule next actions that I haven't thought of before or even
put the project on a someday list.
Another solution would be to implement a stale projects list, i.e. a
list of projects that have defined next actions, but haven't seen any
work in the last X days.
Cheers,
Viktor
PS: Your org-mode site is generally the bomb!
Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Viktor Rosenfeld <listuser36@googlemail.com> writes:
>
> > I use Bernt's approach with a few modifications. Basically I don't use
> > subprojects. I think Bernt's handling of subprojects is broken, because
> > a NEXT keyword burried in a subproject keeps the entire project off the
> > stuck projects lists. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
>
> It's possible it's broken :) but subprojects are considered separately
> for the stuck project list. It is true that if any subproject has a
> NEXT task then the overall project is not stuck (but doesn't that makes
> sense?)
>
> * TODO Project
> ** TODO SubProject A
> *** NEXT Task One
> ** TODO SubProject B
> *** TODO Task Two
>
> In the above layout Project is not stuck (it has Task One as a NEXT
> task) but SubProject B is stuck (it has no next task and shows up on the
> stuck project list)
>
> Also as soon as Task One is DONE than both SubProject A and Project are
> both stuck until a new NEXT task is identified (or they are in turn
> marked DONE)
>
> Regards,
> Bernt
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-12 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-10 6:21 What do you use to identify projects (in the GTD sense) Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-10-10 11:30 ` Daniel Bausch
2011-10-10 18:44 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-10-11 6:20 ` Daniel Bausch
2011-10-11 1:28 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-10-11 8:16 ` Sven Bretfeld
2011-12-11 16:49 ` Viktor Rosenfeld
2011-12-11 22:18 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-12-12 18:29 ` Viktor Rosenfeld [this message]
2011-12-12 19:58 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-12-15 14:41 ` Defining dependencies (was: What do you use to identify projects (in the GTD sense)) Karl Voit
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