From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Price Subject: GTD: Tags or Custom TODO states? Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:37:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8739wh7l1b.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33454 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OQVxH-00014W-O5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:37:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQVxG-0008IX-JL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:37:43 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:60508) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQVxG-0008IS-FC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:37:42 -0400 Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so1176042iwn.0 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:37:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Bernt Hansen wrote: > Matt Price writes: >> GTD.org >> this is the main storage place for actionable items, and items that >> are waiting for a response, so it is listed in the agenda-files alist. >> =A0My plan is to use custom agenda views to quickly access all actions i >> need to take and all items i'm waiting for. =A0Everything should be >> tagged with at least =A0 a CONTEXT tag (calls, emails, office, home, >> errands, etc) and in most cases probably another tag that relates in >> some ways to content -- so e.g. a person's name could be used as a tag >> to build what Allen calls "agendas" for the next meeting you have with >> that person. =A0limiting on tags should make that pretty >> straightforward. =A0Everything should also have a TODO state associated >> with it; right now I'm thinking something like this: >> TODO WAITING |DONE >> but maybe there should be others. =A0(i do want to keep things as simple >> as possible, though) > > With org-mode there's no real reason you have to keep these all in a > single file. =A0I use multiple files with org-agenda-files listing the > active ones which will contribute tasks to my agenda. i'll see how it goes with one file -- i'm really loving having all my mail in one folder and just filtering with wanderlust, i'm hoping it will be the same with this system. > >> >> Projects.org > > I've tried multiple things for projects: > =A0- todo state keywords (PROJECT and PROJDONE) > =A0- tags :project: > > and I've recently moved to a lazy project definition described at > http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-12_2 right now i'm using both tags and custom todo states, until i decide which one works better. =A0i think i want to use todo states -- but i'm having trouble filtering on TODO in the agenda, hopefully i'll figure that out soon. > > This works great for me since I have level 1 tasks as categories and any > actionable items start at level 2. =A0So a project is any level 2 task > with actionable subtasks (any todo keyword) i am thinking of something like that. there are 2 todo sequences: PROJECT SOMEDAY MAYBE COMPLETED ACTION WAITING BLOCKED DONE only things that are actually actionable get called "actions" and end up in my daily list of things to do. anyway thanks for this, still working out the kinks but enjoying the system= .