From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: specifying priority with template expansion Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 11:00:48 +0100 Message-ID: <9B959AB8-E13E-4199-AB41-B9B0D3AD66C6@gmail.com> References: <4CF94C56.2060307@gmail.com> <4CF97271.2020803@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46621 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PPXsY-0007br-Pm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:01:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PPXsT-0000qw-D9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:01:06 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:38139) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PPXsT-0000qf-6i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:01:01 -0500 Received: by ywj3 with SMTP id 3so420405ywj.0 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:01:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4CF97271.2020803@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "David A. Thompson" Cc: Jeff Horn , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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