Re: Quickly inputting next actions to specific lists.

From: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quickly inputting next actions to specific lists.
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:00:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wnjqp0b.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e5bcefd0903051343u114b691eh34d45e8f1cbdc9fd@mail.gmail.com> (Marcelo de Moraes Serpa's message of "Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:43:26 -0600")

Hi Marcelo,

If I'm understanding it correctly, org-remember with interactive filing
does precisely what you're looking for. You can quickly enter a task and
then type C-1 C-c C-c to choose where to file it.

http://orgmode.org/manual/Remember.html#Remember

Best,
Matt

Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:

> Yeah, maybe I could develop another function that uses refile (or
> refile's logic) to get the items where I want to. But the idea is
> different, I want to bind this func to a key combo, when it is called
> it would ask interactively for the item's string, then, after that,
> where I would like to put it (it might ask me to write or to choose
> from a list - like the add tag does).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcelo.
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>     C-h f org-refile.
>    
>     On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 14:27, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
>     <celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
>     > Refilling?
>     >
>     > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Samuel Wales <
>     samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Refiling might do what you want.
>     >>
>     >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:40, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
>     >> <celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
>     >> > Hello list,
>     >> >
>     >> > Let's say I have some "next action" that I know exactly where
>     to put
>     >> > (what
>     >> > list), in other words, I don't need to process it (in the GTD
>     terms), I
>     >> > just
>     >> > need to put it in the correct list. What I would like to do is
>     some
>     >> > interactive function that would allow me to quickly input a
>     new next
>     >> > action
>     >> > to a specific list. Maybe each main list in the project could
>     have a
>     >> > shortcut (like tags do) and when you run this function you
>     enter the
>     >> > string
>     >> > for the next action item, and quickly says where you want it
>     to go, and
>     >> > it
>     >> > appends it there. I'm not deep enough in elisp to do that, so,
>     if
>     >> > someone
>     >> > could help me I would be grateful!
>     >> >
>     >> > Thanks,
>     >> >
>     >> > Marcelo.
>     >> >
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>     Jason et al. 2006) and severe suffering (worse than nearly all
>     other
>     diseases studied; e.g. Schweitzer et al. 1995) and *grossly*
>     corrupting science.
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