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From: indieterminacy <indieterminacy@libre.brussels>
To: Eduardo Suarez <esuarez@itccanarias.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 18:27:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d498adf74034689087b03a3126e23f5@libre.brussels> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220831161348.GA2413557@itccanarias.org>

Hello Eduardo,

On 31-08-2022 18:13, Eduardo Suarez wrote:
> 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?
> 

While these are non orgmode solutions inside Emacs I hope they can give 
you some ideas of what you want:

https://github.com/sp1ff/elfeed-score
https://www.unwoundstack.com/blog/scoring-elfeed-entries.html

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Scoring.html


> 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?

HTH

-- 
Jonathan McHugh
indieterminacy@libre.brussels

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

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-31 16:13 Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority Eduardo Suarez
2022-08-31 16:27 ` indieterminacy [this message]
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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