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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [OT][GTD] GTDish next action "todo" keyword, could that influence your productivity in any way?
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 05:54:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mx1q5ibh.fsf@altern.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACHMzOH=LeJs_1WPTOoWo_K_EPXYgeV5WLEE6c_OtvL-c2y3rg@mail.gmail.com> (Marcelo de Moraes Serpa's message of "Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:59:48 -0500")

Hi Marcelo,

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

> What do you think; and what word do you use as your TODO keyword?

I use 

NEXT(/) TODO(t) STRT(s) WAIT(w@) | DONE(d) DELEGATED(D@) CANCELED(c@)

The difference between NEXT and TODO is because I want to always keep
less than 10 NEXT items on a project, but I still want to distinguish
between TODOs and those entries without a TODO keyword.  If I had only
TODO, there would be often too many entries without a TODO keyword.

I use STRT mostly in combination with a Read/Write/Watch tag, to spot
things I started to Read/Write/Watch.

I check WAIT once in a while for pending tasks.

The rest is quite common I guess.

I tried to avoid keywords proliferation and I stabilized this setup 
over the years.  My main issue was about this NEXT/TODO distinction, 
but I found out it's more a matter of discipline than of semantics...

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-20  3:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-20  2:59 [OT][GTD] GTDish next action "todo" keyword, could that influence your productivity in any way? Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2012-08-20  3:54 ` Bastien [this message]
2012-08-20 13:03   ` John Hendy
2012-08-20 16:32   ` Samuel Wales
2012-08-20 17:54     ` Bastien
2012-08-21 11:22 ` Mike McLean
2012-08-21 22:50   ` Bastien
2012-08-22  1:17     ` Mike McLean
2012-08-29 16:09       ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa

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