From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Bausch <bausch@dvs.tu-darmstadt.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: agenda: personal priority for today
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:37:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87li8pv4y6.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51666798.7040107@dvs.tu-darmstadt.de> (Daniel Bausch's message of "Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:34:48 +0200")
Hi Daniel,
Daniel Bausch <bausch@dvs.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:
> Just do not touch the IDs of items not currently visible or add the name
> of the agenda to which this applies and have an AGENDA_BEFORE per agenda.
Mhh... looks like overengineering to me.
>> I think we should start thinking from the existing functionalities
>> we have with `org-agenda-sorting-strategy', which is already quite
>> rich (30 strategies!) and flexible.
>>
>> But I cannot think of something that would match the OP request
>> at the moment.
>
> Then maybe a 31st is required ;-)
>
> I already use some of those 30 strategies, but am also not 100%
> satisfied with the result. Global priorities are somewhat hard to
> define. It is mentally easier to just say, hey this is more important
> than that. The sequence in the Org file can reflect the order of
> insertion or the typical order of processing within a tree of projects.
> But when steps from different projects mix within one daily agenda, it
> is not always possible to prioritize project A over project B.
> Repeatedly exchanging project A and project B in the file is cumbersome
> and if there are two projects from different files, one would need to
> adjust the org-agenda-files variable.
>
> I often have more TODOs on the daily agenda, than I will be able to
> resolve on that day. Deciding on the next most important one everytime
> when switching the task makes me tired. Doing things in a random order
> feels dangerous.
>
> How do you decide what to do next?
I bind `=' to a custom agenda command that will find out what to do
next depending on the Emacs context.
For example, when reading emails, C-c a = will find next emails to
process; when in *.el C-c a = will find next Emacs/Org bugs to deal
with; when in my big garden.org file, C-c a = will find the next
useless stuff I want to watch/read.
(See `org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts' if you don't use it yet.)
I don't use clocking that much, but I do set efforts nonetheless,
because I like using `org-agenda-max-effort' in agenda views: this
way I'm sure the agenda is not cluttered with tasks I didn't care
enough about to set an effort for them.
And above all, I try to discipline myself not setting to many
"NEXT" tasks. First my notion of "NEXT" was "Yeah, I can do this
quickly!", now it is more like "This *needs* to be done next",
obviously a small set.
So as you see, I don't need too much fancy sorting in the agenda
because I try to keep my agenda very short. The need for fancy
sorting tells that agendas are too big, and sorting will only
help, not solve this problem.
2 cents of course,
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-11 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-10 12:35 agenda: personal priority for today Michael Heinrich
2013-04-10 19:21 ` John Wiegley
2013-04-10 22:58 ` Bastien
2013-04-10 23:17 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2013-04-10 23:32 ` Bastien
2013-04-11 6:27 ` Daniel Bausch
2013-04-11 7:04 ` Bastien
2013-04-11 7:34 ` Daniel Bausch
2013-04-11 8:37 ` Bastien [this message]
2013-04-11 8:40 ` Bastien
2013-04-11 9:27 ` Daniel Bausch
2013-04-16 15:58 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2013-04-16 16:30 ` Bastien
2013-04-21 13:31 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2013-04-17 8:44 ` Daniel Clemente
2013-04-18 10:23 ` Bastien
2013-04-18 12:54 ` Daniel Clemente
2013-04-10 19:50 ` Samuel Wales
2013-04-11 12:16 ` Michael Brand
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