From: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
To: Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question re CATEGORY and Agenda Views
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ws476pmk.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h890ni$pca$1@ger.gmane.org> (Markus Heller's message of "Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:46:57 -0700")
Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I apologize if this is RTFM, i couldn't find the answer. Maybe it's also
> because of a misconception on my part.
>
> I have a .org file with the following setup (HEAVILY inspired by Bernt Hansen,
> http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html):
>
> * ABC1
> :PROPERTIES:
> :CATEGORY: Bugfixes
> :PROJECT: ABC1
> :END:
> ** STARTED Find bugs
> ** STARTED Fix bugs
>
> * ABC2
> :PROPERTIES:
> :CATEGORY: Bugfixes
> :PROJECT: ABC2
> :END:
> ** STARTED Find bugs
> ** STARTED Fix bugs
>
> So I have 2 different projects with identical tasks. If I bring up the agenda
> and list all STARTED tasks, I get a list that looks like:
>
> Bugfixes: STARTED Find bugs :NEXT:
> Bugfixes: STARTED Fix bugs :NEXT:
> Bugfixes: STARTED Find bugs :NEXT:
> Bugfixes: STARTED Fix bugs :NEXT:
>
> So the first column is taken from the CATEGORY property. How can I change this
> so that the actual project is displayed in the agenda view? I would expect that
> I'd have to use the PROJECT property, but how do I do this? Or is my whole idea
> flawed?
* Files
To be honest, I never used the CATEGORY property at all, simply
because that's a kind of information I need to see anyway and to put
that information into a drawer is counterproductive. I'm still waiting
for the day/mail when I apprehend the use of CATEGORY ;)
Instead, I use one file per customer (or even project) and the file
name is seen in the agenda. So I would have an `ABC1.org' and an
`ABC2.org' [fn:1]. If I don't use one of those files anymore
(everything is DONE and the customer is not likely to call anymore), I
remove the file from the list of my agenda files.
* Headlines
"Fix Bugs" is my job, so why should I have a to-do entry with that
title in one of my files? It wouldn't say anything about the task
without context. That said, I would have to expand the entry when
visiting the Org-file, just to find out what that entry is all about.
In short, I use headlines that actually say something about the task.
That way, never ran into an issue with two identical headlines. While
the headline of two entries could be identical, the to-do state of
those entries will be different. One of them will be DONE and thus not
show up in the agenda.
As an example, a bug could show up again for some reason, but I have
to add a new entry, because the old one is billed already and
therefore DONE.
For small things that go in my organizer.org, I use tags which show up
in the agenda, too.
Best wishes
Sebastian
Footnotes:
[fn:1] Note, that those files do not need to live in your `org-directory', but
could live in your projects workspace if you prefer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-10 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-09 19:46 Question re CATEGORY and Agenda Views Markus Heller
2009-09-09 23:34 ` Matt Lundin
2009-09-10 10:49 ` Sebastian Rose [this message]
2009-09-10 20:56 ` Markus Heller
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