* Org productivity tip to prevent accumulation of unscheduled undone tasks
@ 2010-03-27 2:29 Ryan Thompson
2010-03-27 5:51 ` Tom
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From: Ryan Thompson @ 2010-03-27 2:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Org-Mode List
Hi all,
I recently found a small trick that makes Org nag me about undone TODO
items that I have added via org-remember. Previously, I had the
problem that I would use remember to add TODO items, but then they
would languish in my TODO list because they would never appear in my
agenda. To fix this, I set my normal TODO template to have a scheduled
date. This way, the default is to schedule a task for today, instead
of leave it unscheduled. Now, in my agenda, Org will nag me about
anything I have added unless I explicitly went to the trouble of
deleting the scheduled line or changing the default. I find that I
tend to get more done now that Org-mode reminds me by default.
Here are my two TODO templates. They are bound to "t" and uppercase
"T". The upper-case is my old TODO template, now called "TODO
unscheduled".
("TODO" 116 "* TODO %^{Description}\n %U\n SCHEDULED: %^{Scheduled
time}T\n %?\n" "tasks.org" "Unsorted Tasks" nil)
("TODO unscheduled" 84 "* TODO %^{Description}\n %U\n %?"
"tasks.org" "Unsorted Tasks" nil)
-Ryan Thompson
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* Re: Org productivity tip to prevent accumulation of unscheduled undone tasks
2010-03-27 2:29 Org productivity tip to prevent accumulation of unscheduled undone tasks Ryan Thompson
@ 2010-03-27 5:51 ` Tom
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Tom @ 2010-03-27 5:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Ryan Thompson <rct <at> thompsonclan.org> writes:
>
> Previously, I had the
> problem that I would use remember to add TODO items, but then they
> would languish in my TODO list because they would never appear in my
> agenda.
I use a block agenda for this purpose which shows scheduled items and
regular TODO items together:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Block-agenda.html
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