* Re: Interpretation of priorities in org-mode
@ 2007-08-01 14:47 Renzo Been
2007-08-01 15:13 ` Piotr Zielinski
2007-08-02 6:07 ` Dmitri Minaev
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From: Renzo Been @ 2007-08-01 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi,
Maybe I'm not that smart here...
But what is actually the difference between using:
*priorities
and:
*Using tags
You could make tags like this:
Urgent
Tomorow
Low
etc...
Ciao,
Renzo
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* Re: Re: Interpretation of priorities in org-mode
2007-08-01 14:47 Interpretation of priorities in org-mode Renzo Been
@ 2007-08-01 15:13 ` Piotr Zielinski
2007-08-01 16:52 ` Bastien
2007-08-02 6:07 ` Dmitri Minaev
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From: Piotr Zielinski @ 2007-08-01 15:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Renzo Been; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On 01/08/07, Renzo Been <swangdoodles@gmail.com> wrote:
> But what is actually the difference between using:
> *priorities
>
> and:
> *Using tags
That's a very good point. The reason why I decided to use priorities
was because it was easier to make them work with org-agenda. In
particular, I don't know how to make the agenda display, for example,
"all headlines without the :today: tag in the order of increasing
deadlines". If this is possible, I'll happily switch to tags.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Piotr
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* Re: Re: Interpretation of priorities in org-mode
2007-08-01 15:13 ` Piotr Zielinski
@ 2007-08-01 16:52 ` Bastien
2007-08-09 5:05 ` Carsten Dominik
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From: Bastien @ 2007-08-01 16:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
"Piotr Zielinski" <piotr.zielinski@gmail.com> writes:
> The reason why I decided to use priorities was because it was easier
> to make them work with org-agenda. In particular, I don't know how to
> make the agenda display, for example, "all headlines without
> the :today: tag in the order of increasing deadlines". If this is
> possible, I'll happily switch to tags.
This search should be achieved with a custom command like:
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
'(("u" tags "-today"
((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(time-up))))))
See (info "(org)Setting Options") ... but i can't have the '(time-up)
option to be taken into account. At least it works for selecting all
but the :today: tag.
--
Bastien
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2007-08-01 16:52 ` Bastien
@ 2007-08-09 5:05 ` Carsten Dominik
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From: Carsten Dominik @ 2007-08-09 5:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bastien; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On Aug 1, 2007, at 18:52, Bastien wrote:
> "Piotr Zielinski" <piotr.zielinski@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The reason why I decided to use priorities was because it was easier
>> to make them work with org-agenda. In particular, I don't know how to
>> make the agenda display, for example, "all headlines without
>> the :today: tag in the order of increasing deadlines". If this is
>> possible, I'll happily switch to tags.
>
> This search should be achieved with a custom command like:
>
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
> '(("u" tags "-today"
> ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(time-up))))))
>
> See (info "(org)Setting Options") ... but i can't have the '(time-up)
> option to be taken into account. At least it works for selecting all
> but the :today: tag.
The reason why this does not work is that sorting by time
only works if the entry has been *selected* for inclusion into
the agenda by a timestamp. If it was selected, for example, by tag,
the it would be unclear which time to use, there might be many
in the entry, like scheduled, deadline, or a plain time stamp
marking this also as an appointment.
- Carsten
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* Re: Re: Interpretation of priorities in org-mode
2007-08-01 14:47 Interpretation of priorities in org-mode Renzo Been
2007-08-01 15:13 ` Piotr Zielinski
@ 2007-08-02 6:07 ` Dmitri Minaev
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From: Dmitri Minaev @ 2007-08-02 6:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Renzo Been; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On 8/1/07, Renzo Been <swangdoodles@gmail.com> wrote:
> But what is actually the difference between using:
> *priorities
>
> and:
> *Using tags
>
> You could make tags like this:
> Urgent
> Tomorow
> Low
Generally speaking, the priorities are a sorting tool. Tags may be
used for that goal, too, and by a sheer coincidence (or not?) the
proposed tags Urgent, Tomorrow and Low are in the right alphabetic
order. If you need more than 3 groups, however, you'll have to take
that into account. Also, it's OK to use tags instead of priorities as
long as you don't want the records to be sorted by yet another
criterion. Otherwise, you need something to complement the tags and
the priorities are perfect here.
Also, in the files where tags are used extensively, the tag you want
the records to be sorted by may happen to be in any position but the
last one, thus breaking the sorting.
That's why I prefer priorities to the corresponding tags, even though
the best use I have for them is setting the rating of the read books
:). They're simply indispensable for that goal.
--
With best regards,
Dmitri Minaev
Russian history blog: http://minaev.blogspot.com
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