From: Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com>
To: Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-mode as an accountability system?
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 14:18:29 -0500 [thread overview]
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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.)
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.
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
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.
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
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-03 19:18 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 [this message]
2012-03-03 20:25 ` John Hendy
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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