emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Best practices to get reminders?
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:11:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9sqfsum.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9sr7xle.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>


On 2015-04-08, at 11:55, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:

> Don't be ashamed, I'm sure we all use some software we're not proud
> of :)

It's not that I'm ashamed, it's that apparently it is forbidden to talk
about certain categories of software on this list, at least if you don't
talk about them in a derogatory manner.

> Something I've been considering, as part of a general attempt to get
> away from my computer a little bit more, is to print out an agenda each
> evening detailing the things I need to do the next day. So the last
> thing in the evening is taking stock of where I am, going through my Org
> files and figuring out what needs to be done, then scheduling things for
> the next day, then actually printing out the Agenda for the next
> morning. Sure, most of the stuff I need to do needs to be done on the
> computer, but if I can schedule even just one non-computer task for the
> first thing, and delay "assuming the position" in front of my keyboard
> just a bit, I think that's a win.

+1.  I do something similar (although I just write things down using
a pen and a piece of paper), though for a bit different reasons.

> Sure, I suspected when I wrote that that very few people actually reboot
> or restart Emacs every day...

;-)

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-08 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-07  2:52 Best practices to get reminders? Nikolaus Rath
2015-04-07  3:06 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-04-07  4:12   ` Nikolaus Rath
2015-04-07  4:28     ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-04-07  3:11 ` Carlos Sosa
2015-04-07  4:16   ` Nikolaus Rath
2015-04-07  4:09 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-07 10:10   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-08  9:55     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-08 17:11       ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-04-11 23:17         ` Manish
2015-04-12  1:53           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-07 14:19 ` Melleus
2015-04-07 15:15   ` Giuseppe Lipari
2015-04-07 15:27     ` Melleus
2015-04-13 18:12 ` Leo Ufimtsev

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87h9sqfsum.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl \
    --to=mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).