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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TODO items in lists (not headings)
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:41:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wq91wyiq.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAFChFygK-9AG9CvO3tf5uxhoY7XHGB+PjYnpMcKmrgH-pfPmkg@mail.gmail.com

Gary Oberbrunner <garyo@oberbrunner.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:
>
>     Aloha Gary,
>    
>     Gary Oberbrunner <garyo@oberbrunner.com> writes:
>    
>     > Gary:
>     >   My reason for not using TODO is just that it'd be ugly and confusing to
>     > put a heading in the middle of a list.
>     >
>     >   Compare this:
>     > * Meeting report
>     > ** Meeting 1
>     >   - a thing that happened
>     >   - another thing that happened
>     >   - TODO: email everyone about all the things
>     >   - some more things that happened
>     >
>     >   to this:
>     > * Meeting report
>     > ** Meeting 1
>     >   - a thing that happened
>     >   - another thing that happened
>     > ***TODO: email everyone about all the things
>     >   - some more things that happened
>    
>     One solution is to use a capture template for TODO items and then refile
>     them.  I picked this up from Bernt Hansen and like it a lot:
>    
>     http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Capture
>
> Wow, that guy is serious!  I don't think his setup solves what I'm looking for, but there is so much great stuff in there it'll take me weeks to check it all out.

Indeed - Bernt's writeup has been the source of inspiration for lots of
people on this list.

On your question:

I don't think you can have list items carrying TODO keywords. Why can't
you make the list items third-level headlines instead?

-- 
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-18  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-16 20:21 TODO items in lists (not headings) Gary Oberbrunner
2014-09-16 20:32 ` Tory S. Anderson
2014-09-16 22:39   ` Gary Oberbrunner
2014-09-17  3:48     ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-09-17 12:45       ` Gary Oberbrunner
2014-09-18  0:41         ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-11-21  4:19           ` Bernt Hansen's rene
2014-11-21  8:36             ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-11-22 18:08               ` J. David Boyd
2014-12-01 10:22               ` rene
2014-11-23 18:46             ` Bernt Hansen
2014-09-18 16:23         ` TODO items in lists (not headings) Subhan Michael Tindall
2014-09-18 18:49           ` Gary Oberbrunner
2014-09-23 13:34             ` Gary Oberbrunner

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