Aloha Gary,

Gary Oberbrunner <garyo@oberbrunner.com> writes:

> Gary:
>   My reason for not using TODO is just that it'd be ugly and confusing to
> put a heading in the middle of a list.
>
>   Compare this:
> * Meeting report
> ** Meeting 1
>   - a thing that happened
>   - another thing that happened
>   - TODO: email everyone about all the things
>   - some more things that happened
>
>   to this:
> * Meeting report
> ** Meeting 1
>   - a thing that happened
>   - another thing that happened
> ***TODO: email everyone about all the things
>   - some more things that happened

One solution is to use a capture template for TODO items and then refile
them.  I picked this up from Bernt Hansen and like it a lot:

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Capture