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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Nuutti Kotivuori <naked@iki.fi>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Numeric Priorities (Was: Re: org priority cycling - removing priorities)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:25:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4eba2d0b2e87de496db067a77b3af377@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ps0rx65n.fsf_-_@aka.i.naked.iki.fi>

Hi,

On Sep 9, 2007, at 16:30, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:

> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> But as I said, this may not be good enough a reason.  Open for
>> discussion.
>
> I find the priority settings almost unusable for me.

[...]

> But for my work tasks, priorities are really important as they are
> given to me externally. So I need a lot of priority levels, both up
> and down from the default. And atleast I'm not so savvy with alphabet,
> that I could instantly see how much less important [#P] is than [#T] -
> especially with respect to the default level etc.
>

You can do all this by just inserting your own marker into entries.
The question is what do you want to *do* with these.

> So, how about adding a new feature, org-todo-use-numeric-priorities.
>
> This would make the priorities be like:
>
>   * TODO [#+2] Task 1
>   * TODO [#+1] Task 2
>   * TODO Task 3
>   * TODO [#-1] Task 4
>   * TODO [#-2] Task 5

You can use priorities 0-9 now.  Me personally, I believe this
priority game becomes entirely useless for more than a few values.

Any other takes on this?

- Carsten

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-13  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-06 13:37 org priority cycling - removing priorities Rick Moynihan
2007-09-06 14:25 ` William Henney
2007-09-07  8:04 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-09-09 14:30   ` Numeric Priorities (Was: Re: org priority cycling - removing priorities) Nuutti Kotivuori
2007-09-13  5:25     ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2007-09-24  9:14     ` Dmitri Minaev
2007-09-24  9:19       ` Numeric Priorities Bastien
2007-09-24  9:50         ` Dmitri Minaev
2007-09-24 11:00           ` Bastien
2007-09-24 11:17             ` Dmitri Minaev
2007-09-24 13:28               ` Bastien
2007-09-24 11:02           ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2007-09-24 11:44             ` Carsten Dominik
2007-09-27 12:36               ` Dmitri Minaev
2007-09-07  9:08 ` org priority cycling - removing priorities Dmitri Minaev
2007-09-07 14:00 ` Renzo Been
2007-09-10  1:00 ` Xavier Maillard

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