From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien 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 Message-ID: <87mx1q5ibh.fsf@altern.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48397) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3J4I-0006qc-8w for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:54:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3J4H-0006pd-AJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:54:22 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com ([209.85.212.177]:62424) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3J4H-0006pX-3k for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:54:21 -0400 Received: by wibhn17 with SMTP id hn17so2915882wib.12 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:54:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Marcelo de Moraes Serpa's message of "Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:59:48 -0500") 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: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa Cc: Org Mode Hi Marcelo, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa 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