From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dmitri Minaev" Subject: Re: Re: Interpretation of priorities in org-mode Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:07:18 +0500 Message-ID: References: <4916e1b50708010747n49b65809p7c94f7d8c804962f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGTqE-0002ga-Ro for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:07:22 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGTqD-0002gE-Ep for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:07:22 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGTqD-0002gB-95 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:07:21 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IGTqC-0005ts-Rx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:07:21 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 34so362049ugf for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:07:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4916e1b50708010747n49b65809p7c94f7d8c804962f@mail.gmail.com> 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: Renzo Been Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 8/1/07, Renzo Been wrote: > But what is actually the difference between using: > *priorities > > and: > *Using tags > > You could make tags like this: > Urgent > Tomorow > Low Generally speaking, the priorities are a sorting tool. Tags may be used for that goal, too, and by a sheer coincidence (or not?) the proposed tags Urgent, Tomorrow and Low are in the right alphabetic order. If you need more than 3 groups, however, you'll have to take that into account. Also, it's OK to use tags instead of priorities as long as you don't want the records to be sorted by yet another criterion. Otherwise, you need something to complement the tags and the priorities are perfect here. Also, in the files where tags are used extensively, the tag you want the records to be sorted by may happen to be in any position but the last one, thus breaking the sorting. That's why I prefer priorities to the corresponding tags, even though the best use I have for them is setting the rating of the read books :). They're simply indispensable for that goal. -- With best regards, Dmitri Minaev Russian history blog: http://minaev.blogspot.com