From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thorsten Subject: Re: org-mode as an accountability system? Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:56:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87linh1pkg.fsf@googlemail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38204) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S3u6t-0003Kp-7m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:55:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S3u6r-0008UY-GB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:55:14 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43582) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S3u6r-0008UO-9z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:55:13 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S3u6n-0004r3-Jt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:55:09 +0100 Received: from e179041090.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.179.41.90]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:55:09 +0100 Received: from quintfall by e179041090.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:55:09 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Peter Salazar writes: Hi Peter, without claiming being an expert org-mode user, I had the following thoughts when reading your post: > I have an accountability partner with whom I exchange daily "committed > actions." Every morning, I e-mail him a list of the tasks I commit to > completing that day.  Why sending per email? Why not getting a free private(!) git repo (1GB) at assembla.com and cooperatively work on one or several org file(s) in that repo? > When I complete a task, I mark it DONE. If I don't complete a task > that day, I mark it @didnotdo and manually cut and paste it to the > next day.  >   > Every night, I send him a report of which actions I did and which ones > I did not do. (I find I get so much more done since I started making > daily commitments to someone other than myself.) If you both work on the same file using git, the current state of affairs will always be clear, as well as who did what at what time (and pushed it to the repo). > 1. Given that I'm creating my daily task list manually, is there an > easy way, when I mark a task @didnotdo, to automatically move it to > the next day's list and change its state to @todo?  When I have a TODO task in the agenda that I did not complete today, I just change the date to tomorrow in the agenda using '>'. If you don't do that, it will appear anyway in the agenda as overdue task. -- cheers, Thorsten