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From: Michael Gilbert <mcg@gilbert.org>
To: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: workflow objective... how to display ONE task, take notes on it, etc
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:42:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D52BD7BB-5F93-4D3E-86E7-09747E05891A@gilbert.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A0125578-7010-4970-A04D-17CE493CB1DE@gilbert.org>

Thank you to Tycho & Bernt. You both got be down the right rode. I've now managed to find several acceptable ways to do this. 

— Michael

On Mar 10,2010, at 3:32 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:

> Org-mode just keeps growing on me. Now I have workflow I want to check out. It's my habit to try to clear my screen of everything except the one task I am working on (and logging) and its associated documents and tools. I want to try to implement this in orgmode. Ideally, it would look something like this:
> 
> - select a task from the AGENDA
> - drill down to a view of just that task with only the task & subordinate items visible
> - edit those subordinate items, especially notes
> - log the time I spend there
> - log out, save notes, change task status
> - return to agenda
> 
> Am I missing some obvious built-in way to do this? (I find that this has happened so often, regardless of how esoteric my objective) that I had better ask. Or could someone help me think through how it might be done? 

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-24 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10 23:32 workflow objective... how to display ONE task, take notes on it, etc Michael Gilbert
2010-03-11  2:35 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-03-24 12:42 ` Michael Gilbert [this message]

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