From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Scott Jaderholm" Subject: Re: Suggestion: Jump points Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:28:56 -0600 Message-ID: References: <468E11C4.50604@calicojack.co.uk> <6da9122d5b79844f2856186565289598@science.uva.nl> <468E1D59.6030006@calicojack.co.uk> <468E6DAF.1040100@calicojack.co.uk> <4694C483.2060708@calicojack.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8e7i-0001gQ-PY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:29:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8e7g-0001ex-Ag for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:29:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8e7f-0001ep-Vx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:29:00 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.234]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I8e7f-0000Ne-9z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:28:59 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f1so1262804nzc for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:28:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4694C483.2060708@calicojack.co.uk> Content-Disposition: inline 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: Rick Moynihan Cc: org-mode On 7/11/07, Rick Moynihan wrote: > So here's a suggestion. Why not support jump points (or jump lines), > which would be essentially be a syntactic marker that would tell > org-mode to jump to a specific line within an outline when visiting from > the agenda e.g. via follow mode. > > * My main project outline. > blah blah blah... > ... > > - [ ] do something > - [ ] do this ++ > - [ ] do something else Hi Rick, I'm guessing you have a really good reason for organizing your project using lists and check boxes instead of TODOs and headings, in which case this email isn't really useful--but, in the extremely unlikely event that you don't, I thought I'd note how this becomes a non-issue if you organize your work in the following way: * My main project outline ** TODO do something ** NEXT do this SCHEDULED: <2007-07-12 Thu> ** do something else If you schedule individual tasks, instead of projects, then the agenda will take you right to your next item. If you schedule projects, then it's easy to see what is the next item to be done because it says NEXT. Cheers, Scott