From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
To: Karl Voit <news1142@Karl-Voit.at>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: @name-tags instead of TODO keywords to assign people (was: Org mode for meeting minutes)
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 08:03:21 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r22ooep2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2019-11-03T21-44-51@devnull.Karl-Voit.at>
+1. This is how I do it as well. This approach makes it easier to not
only see what tasks have been assigned to what people, it also provides
a way to generate a custom agenda (report) showing what tasks each has
and what the state is for each task.
Tim
Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
> * Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbs.ch> wrote:
>>
>> The idea is that you use type todos using the people involved at the
>> meeting. Below is an example how this could look:
>>
>> ``` org
>> #+title: Meeting minutes
>>
>> #+TYP_TODO: Fred Sara Lucy Mike | DONE
>
> I'd challenge the decisions on using TODO keywords for people
> although the Org manual also suggests to do so.
>
> TODO keywords are single classification. This means that you are not
> able to assign more than one person to a task. I'm using @tags for
> the same purpose which allows me to assign tasks to more than one
> person and keep TODO keywords independent to the person. For
> example, when you resolve a task, you lose the information who was
> assigned to the task.
>
> Therefore, I'd use:
>
> * Meeting
>
> ** TODO Prepare the demo :@Fred:
> ** STARTED Contact customer :@Sara:
> ** TODO Work on the document :@Fred:@Lucy:@Mike:
>
> More on that on
> https://karl-voit.at/2019/09/25/categories-versus-tags/ including an
> elisp snippet I'm using to filter according to @name-tags.
>
> YMMV. HTH.
--
Tim Cross
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-03 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-31 14:03 Org mode for meeting minutes Christian Egli
2019-10-31 15:49 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-10-31 17:11 ` Ken Mankoff
2020-03-23 9:36 ` Christian Egli
2020-03-23 11:39 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-03-23 13:33 ` Axel Kielhorn
2020-03-23 13:47 ` Carsten Dominik
2020-03-23 18:09 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-03-23 22:00 ` Nick Dokos
2020-03-24 10:09 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-03-23 20:03 ` Timm Lichte
2020-03-24 10:04 ` Christian Egli
2020-03-25 22:39 ` Timm Lichte
2020-03-26 8:28 ` Christian Egli
2020-03-24 11:19 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-03-24 12:00 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-03-25 17:55 ` Bob Newell
2020-03-25 19:02 ` Diego Zamboni
2019-11-01 12:49 ` John Kitchin
2019-11-03 20:49 ` @name-tags instead of TODO keywords to assign people (was: Org mode for meeting minutes) Karl Voit
2019-11-03 21:03 ` Tim Cross [this message]
2020-02-12 9:12 ` Org mode for meeting minutes Bastien
2020-07-07 11:44 ` Adam Spiers
2020-07-07 16:21 ` Alexander Adolf
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