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From: Eduardo Suarez <esuarez@itccanarias.org>
To: <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:13:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220831161348.GA2413557@itccanarias.org> (raw)

I have lots of tasks (todos) and I would like to create a long backlog based on
my perceived priority.

I was thinking to deal with them in the following way:

- divide them in groups (categories or similar),
- manually sort priority for every group,
- mergesort groups, that is, start merging groups in pairs, and manually sort
  for every step the union group until I have a large sorted backlog.

For this to be practical, I would need an easy way to sort manually a group of
tasks and get them assigned automatically a priority (or any other hack) so
that priority ordering matches manual ordering.

Any idea about how to get this done?

If I had to implement it (I don't know lisp), I would assign a property (say
BACKLOG_PRIORITY) for every new task, with value the higher value of any other
tasks in agenda plus ten (for instance). Then I would query a subset of tasks
and sort them manually, swapping their values every time I swap their order. I
would also allow to assign a value directly based on free slots, not to bubble
the whole list for a low priority task.

Does it sound over-engineered? Any idea?

next             reply	other threads:[~2022-08-31 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-31 16:13 Eduardo Suarez [this message]
2022-08-31 16:27 ` Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority indieterminacy
2022-08-31 21:42 ` Tim Cross
2022-09-09 10:01   ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-09-09 22:05     ` Tim Cross
2022-09-10  8:17       ` Eduardo Suarez-Santana
2022-09-02 12:52 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-06  9:15 ` Eduardo Suárez
2022-09-07  4:45   ` Ihor Radchenko

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