* another GTD question from dto
@ 2007-10-03 14:11 David O'Toole
2007-10-03 15:33 ` Bernt Hansen
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From: David O'Toole @ 2007-10-03 14:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
I've been in my new "simple GTD" system for about a week, and it feels
very comfortable. Thanks again to Carsten and to the org-mode
community.
Now I see what was wrong with my previous uses of org-mode. I never
used any keywords other than TODO and DONE. This didn't give enough
information, so it meant that every task I might possibly ever do had
a TODO item. Because of the absurd number of TODO's I never used the
agenda feature much, and therefore didn't schedule many things; I
relied on my cell-phone for scheduling appointments, and never set
deadlines in my personal coding projects.
Now I am scheduling more things, and using the agenda views
regularly.
But I am still having one problem. Right now I have a section in my
One Big Orgfile that looks like this:
> * Books
> ** TODO Read "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
> *** DONE Find out about Wittgenstein's notation
> *** NEXT Chapter 5
> *** TODO Chapter 6
> *** TODO Chapter 7
> *** TODO Review entire book
> *** MAYBE [[http://s22318.tsbvi.edu/mathproject/appB-sec1.asp][Spoken mathematics]]
> ** TODO Read "The Analysis of Mind"
> *** NEXT Chapter 1
This gives in the agenda:
dto: Scheduled: NEXT Chapter 5
dto: Scheduled: NEXT Chapter 1
Without any indication which book the chapters are from. Can I fix
this with properties or tags or categories or something?
--
David O'Toole
dto@gnu.org
http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/
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2007-10-03 14:11 another GTD question from dto David O'Toole
@ 2007-10-03 15:33 ` Bernt Hansen
2007-10-03 20:55 ` Bastien
2007-10-06 23:23 ` Jason F. McBrayer
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Bernt Hansen @ 2007-10-03 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David O'Toole; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
David O'Toole <dto@gnu.org> writes:
> I've been in my new "simple GTD" system for about a week, and it feels
> very comfortable. Thanks again to Carsten and to the org-mode
> community.
>
> Now I see what was wrong with my previous uses of org-mode. I never
> used any keywords other than TODO and DONE. This didn't give enough
> information, so it meant that every task I might possibly ever do had
> a TODO item. Because of the absurd number of TODO's I never used the
> agenda feature much, and therefore didn't schedule many things; I
> relied on my cell-phone for scheduling appointments, and never set
> deadlines in my personal coding projects.
>
> Now I am scheduling more things, and using the agenda views
> regularly.
>
> But I am still having one problem. Right now I have a section in my
> One Big Orgfile that looks like this:
>
>> * Books
>> ** TODO Read "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
>> *** DONE Find out about Wittgenstein's notation
>> *** NEXT Chapter 5
>> *** TODO Chapter 6
>> *** TODO Chapter 7
>> *** TODO Review entire book
>> *** MAYBE [[http://s22318.tsbvi.edu/mathproject/appB-sec1.asp][Spoken mathematics]]
>> ** TODO Read "The Analysis of Mind"
>> *** NEXT Chapter 1
>
> This gives in the agenda:
>
> dto: Scheduled: NEXT Chapter 5
> dto: Scheduled: NEXT Chapter 1
>
> Without any indication which book the chapters are from. Can I fix
> this with properties or tags or categories or something?
I'm less than a week into my shiny new GTD setup.
I don't normally schedule tasks that don't need to be scheduled anymore.
I spend more time "doing stuff" than rescheduling things. I have a
PROJECT and PROJDONE task which I use only for project headlines - and
the PROJECT task defines what is a project. I schedule some of the
important PROJECT tasks (not their subtasks) just to keep them on my
radar in the daily agenda view.
My NEXT tag view for @home is @home/NEXT|PROJECT so my view is something
like this:
todo: .PROJECT Learn Ruby on Rails - Agile Development on Rails Depot Application tutorial
todo: ...NEXT Chapter 6 :sub60:
which shows the book title. You can also use follow mode in the agenda
if you reveal the parent headings with org-show-hierarchy-above t.
I don't know of a way to see it directly in the agenda if you only
display the NEXT task.
HTH,
Bernt
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* Re: another GTD question from dto
2007-10-03 14:11 another GTD question from dto David O'Toole
2007-10-03 15:33 ` Bernt Hansen
@ 2007-10-03 20:55 ` Bastien
2007-10-06 23:23 ` Jason F. McBrayer
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Bastien @ 2007-10-03 20:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
David O'Toole <dto@gnu.org> writes:
> Without any indication which book the chapters are from. Can I fix
> this with properties or tags or categories or something?
,----
| * Books
| ** TODO Read "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
| :PROPERTIES:
| :CATEGORY: TLP
| :END:
|
| *** DONE Find out about Wittgenstein's notation
| *** NEXT Chapter 5
| *** TODO Chapter 6
| *** TODO Chapter 7
| *** TODO Review entire book
| *** MAYBE [[...][Spoken mathematics]]
| ** TODO Read "The Analysis of Mind"
| :PROPERTIES:
| :CATEGORY: TAoM
| :END:
|
| *** NEXT Chapter 1
`----
Will give in the agenda:
TLP: Scheduled: NEXT Chapter 5
TAoM: Scheduled: NEXT Chapter 1
It defines a category for each book.
Caveat: when I first discover the power of categories (and other ways to
attach interesting information to a headline) I started to use it a lot.
Because I thought I would finally find something useful to do with these
informations. But sometimes it's just too much, and the hope for some
useful-thing-to-do-in-a-near-future leads to irrelevant hassle...
So in this case, I would simply put "* Chapter 5 of the Tractatus" in
the headline. But this might be entirely personal.
BTW, the Tractatus is also on my TODO list :)
--
Bastien
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* Re: another GTD question from dto
2007-10-03 14:11 another GTD question from dto David O'Toole
2007-10-03 15:33 ` Bernt Hansen
2007-10-03 20:55 ` Bastien
@ 2007-10-06 23:23 ` Jason F. McBrayer
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jason F. McBrayer @ 2007-10-06 23:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: org-mode
David O'Toole <dto@gnu.org> writes:
> This gives in the agenda:
>
> dto: Scheduled: NEXT Chapter 5
> dto: Scheduled: NEXT Chapter 1
>
> Without any indication which book the chapters are from. Can I fix
> this with properties or tags or categories or something?
I always try to put enough information in a task headline to make it
unambiguous. This is more "GTD", I think, but it's also a bit more
manual.
--
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| battle, and someone else conquers himself, the latter one |
| is the greatest of all conquerors. --- The Dhammapada |
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