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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: c.buhtz@posteo.jp
Cc: Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use-case: simple nodes and todo-list
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:53:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d01rlfvy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4e68cd84a3043ed900a38729fe27e72@posteo.de> (c. buhtz's message of "Fri, 09 Oct 2020 10:17:56 +0200")

My use of org actually quite closely manages your paper based
approach.  I have 3 main org files that cover the tasks you have
described:

1. todo.org which has all my todo items.  every now and again, I go
   through this list and schedule some of them.  I do put deadlines on
   items if they have hard deadlines (i.e. of the type that says "this
   *has* to be done by then or else...") but I do not create artificial
   deadlines.

2. notes.org that is simple a collection of (a large number of)
   snippets, each in a single top level headline.  These are all tagged
   when created with as many tags per entry as I can think of at the
   time.  I can then usually find what I want very quickly through the
   tag search functionality in org-agenda (C-c a m TAG RET) with
   org-agenda bound to "C-c a".  But see below.

3. diary.org for appointments and meetings.  This is the file that sees
   the most activity but only because I seem to live in meetings these
   days...

The key with the first two is to not worry about how you structure
information.  If all else fails, you can use the full power of Emacs to
find things (occur; isearch-forward-regexp; etc.).  

HTH,
eric

-- 
: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4-38-g16f505


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-09 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-09  8:17 Use-case: simple nodes and todo-list c.buhtz
2020-10-09  8:37 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-09  9:30 ` Joost Kremers
2020-10-09 12:53 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]

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