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From: Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info>
To: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Request for suggestions about best practices: tracking responses
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:04:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9A0CD4.7090704@sift.info> (raw)

Often now I have org-mode tasks that I move to WAIT status when I send
someone an email to get some next step done.

The problem is that I have a hard time getting back to those tasks when
I get a response email (or phone call).

There is nothing salient about these that means that when I get a
response email, I see the task and can mark it as completed.

Does anyone have a good solution for this?

I have a hazy idea that always having a special agenda window open with
a special agenda display of tasks awaiting responses might do the trick,
but few ideas about how to accomplish this in practice.  Presumably a
special TODO status for awaiting response, and special agenda view...
does that sound reasonable?  I notice that the manual refers to "THE
agenda."  Is it possible to have multiple agenda windows so that I could
always have the "waiting for response" agenda up w/o cutting off my
access to other views?

thanks,
r

next             reply	other threads:[~2010-09-22 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-22 14:04 Robert Goldman [this message]
2010-09-22 20:08 ` Request for suggestions about best practices: tracking responses Sébastien Vauban
2010-09-23 15:53   ` Robert P. Goldman
2010-09-23 18:44     ` David Maus
2010-09-23 19:06       ` Robert Goldman

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