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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Michael Gilbert <mcg@gilbert.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: workflow objective... how to display ONE task, take notes on it, etc
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:35:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hpjziub.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A0125578-7010-4970-A04D-17CE493CB1DE@gilbert.org> (Michael Gilbert's message of "Wed\, 10 Mar 2010 15\:32\:30 -0800")

Michael Gilbert <mcg@gilbert.org> writes:

> Hi —
>

Hi :)

> Org-mode just keeps growing on me. Now I have workflow I want to check
> out. It's my habit to try to clear my screen of everything except the
> one task I am working on (and logging) and its associated documents
> and tools. I want to try to implement this in orgmode. Ideally, it
> would look something like this:

Not sure I completely follow this but maybe this will work?

>
>  - select a task from the AGENDA
   Find task in agenda, hit RET
>  - drill down to a view of just that task with only the task &
>  subordinate items visible
   You're already there, just narrow to subtree C-x n s
   C-c C-v shows you what is left to do
>  - edit those subordinate items, especially notes
   edit normally in org-mode
>  - log the time I spend there
   add timestamps, notes, or clock in as you work
>  - log out, save notes, change task status
   add timestamps, notes, or clock out
>  - return to agenda
   C-c a a (or whatever agenda view you want)
>
> Am I missing some obvious built-in way to do this? (I find that this
> has happened so often, regardless of how esoteric my objective) that I
> had better ask. Or could someone help me think through how it might be
> done?

I narrow to subtree and widen often - so I've bound these to F5 and S-F5
respectively.

See http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#LimitingAgendaView and
http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-2.5 for more details.

HTH,

Bernt

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-11  2:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10 23:32 workflow objective... how to display ONE task, take notes on it, etc Michael Gilbert
2010-03-11  2:35 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2010-03-24 12:42 ` Michael Gilbert

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