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From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: org-mode as an accountability system?
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 14:25:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft91sB+KmZRvZusZAvSkaL=mKtg2TR_7yBXkWMxVHHRRdQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE+_6TyEK8x-DZ=hsEJ1DTQCXhW9-xRqzxXbDijyQLCT++yOHA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Thorsten,
>
> Thanks for the thoughts.
>
> Clarification: I send my accountability partner a summary of MY committed
> actions for the day for him to review. We dont' collaborate, and he does not
> touch or change my tasks. (Although he does send me a list of his own tasks,
> and how well he did each day.)
>

He doesn't have to change them, just be able to view the up to date
state of your todos. I think that was the point. =git pull= is not
significantly more work than opening an email.

> It's important to send the tasks by e-mail so I know he'll see them right
> away (and that will keep me accountable). If I send him a link, I know he
> may or may not view the file if and when he has time.
>

Whether he opens his browser/email client and reads the email or opens
a terminal and does =git pull=, again, does not seem horridly
different. Then again, for a non git user, you are correct that one
more step might make the difference between reading and not.

> As for using Agenda and hitting > to move a task to the next day, there are
> two problems with this:
>
> 1. this does not change the state of a @didnotdo task to @todo

Have a look at: http://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-commands.html

I, too, am not a power user, however it seems like you could do the following:
-- `C-a t` (show all todos)
-- `m` on each one you did not complete
-- `B` (shift+b, conduct bulk action on all marked entries)
-- `t` to change todo state for each marked item
-- Type in 'didnotdo' to change the state
-- `C-a T` (agenda search based on todo state)
-- Type in 'didnotdo' (gives you all the items you just marked since
you didn't do them)
-- Copy the current agenda view into an email and send it
---- Alternative do `C-x C-w` and write it to a file you can push to a git repo
-- `m` on all the shown entries (all are state `didnotdo` at this point)
-- `B` (conduct a bulk action)
-- `s` (schedule new date for all actions)
-- Use the minibuffer calendar to schedule them to a new day

Looks like a lot, but this should go pretty fast once you get the hang of it.

Also, Bernt Hanson has a diddy on his website for creating a timestamp
for every new headline. Perhaps you could use it to create a timestamp
with today's date for every new todo headline? See his elisp code
here:
-- http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-15-21

> 2. for habits (using the format SCHEDULED: <2012-03-03 Sat  +1d>), if I miss
> a day and then try to mark a habit DONE today, it stamps the habit done for
> the day I missed, rather than stamping it done today and recording that I
> did not do it on the day I was supposed to do it.
>

I don't use habit, but I know there's a graph that's supposed to show
color coded bars based on whether you did or did not do the task
according to how you scheduled the habit.
-- http://orgmode.org/manual/Tracking-your-habits.html

Hope this gives you some ideas or even helps you directly!


John

>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>> without claiming being an expert org-mode user, I had the following
>> thoughts when reading your post:
>>
>> > I have an accountability partner with whom I exchange daily "committed
>> > actions." Every morning, I e-mail him a list of the tasks I commit to
>> > completing that day.
>>
>> Why sending per email? Why not getting a free private(!) git repo (1GB)
>> at assembla.com and cooperatively work on one or several org file(s) in
>> that repo?
>>
>> > When I complete a task, I mark it DONE. If I don't complete a task
>> > that day, I mark it @didnotdo and manually cut and paste it to the
>> > next day.
>> >
>> > Every night, I send him a report of which actions I did and which ones
>> > I did not do. (I find I get so much more done since I started making
>> > daily commitments to someone other than myself.)
>>
>> If you both work on the same file using git, the current state of
>> affairs will always be clear, as well as who did what at what time (and
>> pushed it to the repo).
>>
>> > 1. Given that I'm creating my daily task list manually, is there an
>> > easy way, when I mark a task @didnotdo, to automatically move it to
>> > the next day's list and change its state to @todo?
>>
>> When I have a TODO task in the agenda that I did not complete today, I
>> just change the date to tomorrow in the agenda using '>'.
>> If you don't do that, it will appear anyway in the agenda as overdue
>> task.
>>
>>
>> --
>> cheers,
>> Thorsten
>>
>>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-03 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-03 18:22 org-mode as an accountability system? Peter Salazar
2012-03-03 18:56 ` Thorsten
2012-03-03 19:18   ` Peter Salazar
2012-03-03 20:25     ` John Hendy [this message]
2012-03-04 10:03       ` Jude DaShiell
2012-03-04 14:08 ` Memnon Anon
2012-03-05 11:44   ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2012-03-09  2:17     ` Peter Salazar

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