From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "David A. Thompson" <thompdump@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: specifying priority with template expansion
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 11:00:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9B959AB8-E13E-4199-AB41-B9B0D3AD66C6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CF97271.2020803@gmail.com>
On Dec 3, 2010, at 11:42 PM, David A. Thompson wrote:
> On 12/03/2010 12:40 PM, Jeff Horn wrote:
>> Can you give us a better idea of the use case? As I understand,
>> unprioritzed todos count as "B" by default. Since most of my tasks
>> have a priority of B, I've never found setting priorities to be
>> helpful until I sit down to review my work for the day.
>>
>> I prioritize items that are important (or urgent) with A at the
>> beginning of the day (no more than a couple, usually). Most items are
>> "B" and rarely more than half of those get done.
>>
>> If I want to "sink" an item but keep it scheduled, it gets a
>> priority of "C".
>
> Most of my todos are neither associated with deadlines nor are they
> scheduled. Schedules and deadlines have seemed a more time-intensive
> way to go relative to setting priorities (but perhaps this is a
> 'Green Eggs and Ham' thing?)
>
>> These are often things I do not know when recording an item.
>
> I guess the main difference is that I generally am typically able to
> recognize, when recording a todo, whether it's in the 'urgent/asap'
> pile (A), the 'try-and-get-it-done-sometime-soon' pile (B), or in a
> 'sure-would-be-nice-to-get-it-done' pile (C). Given that, it seemed
> both logical and more efficient to immediately prioritize the item
> rather than going back later and prioritizing the item.
You might want to consider to make separate templates with two-key
access for these different priorities. Then you could uce
C-c c t a for priority A
C-c c t b for priority B
etc.
Might be more efficient in your case then reading and responding to a
prompt.
But my intuition would also be to just assume B (which is the same as
giving NO priority at all), and changing it to A or C with S-up and S-
down on the headline while editing the template.
HTH
- Carsten
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-06 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-03 20:00 specifying priority with template expansion David A. Thompson
2010-12-03 20:40 ` Jeff Horn
2010-12-03 22:42 ` David A. Thompson
2010-12-04 18:37 ` Jeff Horn
2010-12-05 4:30 ` Memnon Anon
2010-12-06 10:00 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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