Re: Documentation wishlist items

From: Ethan <ethan.glasser.camp@gmail.com>
To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation wishlist items
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:33:37 -0400	[thread overview]
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:

> My guess is that this allows him to see what group an item belongs to in
> the agenda view, since categories are listed in the left column.
>
> But this is like asking why someone puts their pots in the cupboard next
> to the oven rather than above the sink, or why someone uses legal pads
> rather than a spiral notebook.
>

And if you were setting up a kitchen for the first time, wouldn't you ask
that kind of question? :)

> My recommendation: Just start creating trees, use only a few TODO
> states, and allow the organization to evolve in the way that feels the
> most comfortable to you.
>

At the time of this writing, I've stumbled because I have had one file
called TODO which is becoming too cluttered for me to process usefully. I
used C-c C-v to show only TODO items, but some TODO items have ellipses
indicating content while some have ellipses indicating DONE items
afterwards, so I end up expanding a bunch of DONE items. I have a TODO state
called BLOCKING which clutters the view too. I have a vague sense that
learning how to use the agenda would help, but I haven't gotten to it yet,
since I've been trying to put together a coherent org-mode setup by
cargo-culting things from the advanced users' setups. This probably isn't
the best way to go about it, of course..

I thought org-mode level 1 was pretty easy to learn -- but I'm really
struggling to get to level 2.

Ethan

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