Re: More on GTD, browse todos by priority or creation date

From: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com>
To: David Maus <maus.david@gmail.com>
Cc: "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: More on GTD, browse todos by priority or creation date
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:11:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c8389b600911161211u12e274c9vd54b953f8170872d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873a4eoipi.wl%maus.david@gmail.com>

org-mode's priority doesn't actually work well with GTD.  In org-mode,
priority is not inherited, so you can't prioritize projects, only
tasks.  Usually when this has come up on the list before, the answer
is to use tags for priority when you want to prioritize tasks.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:41 AM, David Maus <maus.david@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi T o n g,
>
> At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:47:39 +0000 (UTC),
> T o n g wrote:
>>
>> Ok, enough off-track babbling, what I want to know is that weather org-
>> mode can somewhat allows me to assign arbitrary levels of priority to my
>> todo list, and let me browse them in their priority order (so that high
>> priority items get done first). The creation date is another way for me
>> to browse my todo items to see what have been on the list for too long.
>>
>
> Orgmode does indeed have a priority feature that seems to fit your
> needs. You may check the Orgmode manual [1], Chapter 5.4 "Priorities" and
> maybe Chapter 10.4.3 "Sorting of agenda items".
>
> Regards,
>
>  --David
>
> [1] http://orgmode.org/manual/
>
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