* workflow objective... how to display ONE task, take notes on it, etc
@ 2010-03-10 23:32 Michael Gilbert
2010-03-11 2:35 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-03-24 12:42 ` Michael Gilbert
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From: Michael Gilbert @ 2010-03-10 23:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist
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:
- select a task from the AGENDA
- drill down to a view of just that task with only the task & subordinate items visible
- edit those subordinate items, especially notes
- log the time I spend there
- log out, save notes, change task status
- return to agenda
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?
Sadly, I'm an emacs and elisp newbie, so that will be a barrier, but any help would be most appreciated.
TIA
— Michael
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* Re: workflow objective... how to display ONE task, take notes on it, etc
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
2010-03-24 12:42 ` Michael Gilbert
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From: Bernt Hansen @ 2010-03-11 2:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Gilbert; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist
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
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* Re: workflow objective... how to display ONE task, take notes on it, etc
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
@ 2010-03-24 12:42 ` Michael Gilbert
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From: Michael Gilbert @ 2010-03-24 12:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist
Thank you to Tycho & Bernt. You both got be down the right rode. I've now managed to find several acceptable ways to do this.
— Michael
On Mar 10,2010, at 3:32 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> 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:
>
> - select a task from the AGENDA
> - drill down to a view of just that task with only the task & subordinate items visible
> - edit those subordinate items, especially notes
> - log the time I spend there
> - log out, save notes, change task status
> - return to agenda
>
> 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?
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