Re: TODO keywords into drawers ?

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TODO keywords into drawers ?
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:12:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7F97371D-6B2D-4AB8-9E7D-78E8ED111202@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874os5elig.wl%xma@gnu.org>

On Aug 18, 2009, at 6:31 AM, Xavier Maillard wrote:

> hi,
>
> I am relatively new (even if I used it years ago) to orgmode.

I still remember.... :-)

>
> I extensively use remember to jot down new tasks/notes/... it
> feets perfectly since it is almost instantaneous.
>
> Sometimes, when at work, someone enters my room to speak about a
> project. When finished, I fire remember and try to sum up our
> discussion. This is not really a task to do but when reviewing my
> notes, it can be switched to a task entry.
>
> With my current setup, I have to differenciate, when in remember,
> if it is a task, a note or something else. If I do not, I do not
> see these entries when reviewing my org files. This is the big
> hole in my system which makes me not trust my system :/

For things that you need to decide about later, I would use
a special template with a special tag.  You can then later
always searc for this tag, decide, and refile.

>
> What I'd like to have in orgmode is a simpler and homogeneous way
> to do things.
>
> * TODO foo bar
>
> would be
>
> * foo bar
> :TYPE:
> TODO
> :END:

No.  I believe that having TODO keywords and tags in special
places is really critical for Org-mode when used in a simple
way.  And since the philosophy of Org is to build up use from
simple to complex, I don't want to change this.  Also, I fail
to see how this would help the proble you describe above.

On the other hand, you can define with a template that will
interactively prompt you for a tag, so that you can make this
decision when starting remember.

- Carsten

>
> a note would be
>
> * foo bar
> :TYPE:
> NOTE
> :END:
>
> etc.
>
> A default entry would have a special entry type -say UNKNOWN-
> thus making the review much more trustable. What I like in this
> idea is the homegenous view of any orgmode file and I guess this
> would make orgmode file parsing a lot easier.
>
> We could even go further by storing all orgmode entries meta-data
> into drawers (tags, timestamps, states, ...)
>
> WDYT ?
>
> Regards
>
> Xavier
>
>
>
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