From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa Subject: org and Things.app - next actions and sorting items Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:02:09 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46968 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P104z-0000oP-AO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:04:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P102l-0004hw-6d for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:02:12 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:64976) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P102l-0004hd-3p for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:02:11 -0400 Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so1964873iwn.0 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:02:09 -0700 (PDT) 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: Org Mode Hi list, I've taken a break of org for two weeks and started using Things.app on OSX. It is a great app, simple and effective. However, nothing comes close to the simplicity and powerfulness of org, mainly for someone used to emacs. I came back to org and felt at home. With org, I have a gtd.org file, that lists projects (items tagged as :PROJECT:) and actionable items (Any item with a TODO). I have other several tags for the TODO items such as :CALL:, :HOME:, :PERSONAL:, :WORK:, etc. I then use the agenda to slice and dice as I wish, the global todo list being the one I use the most (and sometimes restricting this same view by tags). One thing that I miss though is the concept of a ubiquitous Next Actions list. I know it is simply a list, and filtering in the agenda for TODO items could be the equivalente of that, *except* that with Things I can reorder as I will, so, I was constantly putting the very next action list at the top and would eventually re-negotiate this decision throughout the day. With org, though, re-ordering is clunkier and takes more time. I could of course, just re-order directly on my gtd.org file, but I have a bit of additional noise there that I don't want (non-todo items, specifically items tagged as projects). I wonder if it would be possible to re-order directly on the agenda buffer, move an item up or down? Anyway, food for thought :) Marcelo.