From: Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: newbie has some questions
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 21:05:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f322v1$7t7$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d800dab3be704d391c9e1cdc1105bdbd@science.uva.nl>
Hi Carsten,
Carsten Dominik schrieb am 05/20/2007 09:56 PM:
> Hi Fabian,
>
> On May 20, 2007, at 22:45, Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> it's me again ... are my questions to stupid or does
>> nobobdy have an idea?
>
> neither nor - we are just too lazy or too busy.
No problem ...
>
>> * Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am a new user of org-mode; so far I am pretty
>>> expressed...
>>> I spread my todos into about 6 different main
>>> categories, each in an own file. So far it works pretty
>>> good, but I am kind of curious, when the lists get
>>> bigger...
>>>
>>> For the dayly use I have some questios:
>>> - can I use different colors for the keywords TODO,
>>> FEEDBACK, VERIFY, CANCEL and DONE in every buffer (agenda too)
>
> No, this is currently not supported. You could hack it in
> using font-lock-add-keywords, but there is currently no
> support for this in Org-mode.
That is probably a good work-around; thanks.
>
>>> - how can I sort the agenda todo list according to the
>>> priority
>
> It is sorted according to priority - but only within categories.
> If you want it to ignore categories and sort by priority only,
> you need to configure `org-agenda-sorting-strategy' to something
> like this (this is the default setting, but with the part for the
> todo list modified):
>
> (setq org-agenda-sorting-strategy
> '((agenda time-up category-keep priority-down)
> (todo priority-down)
> (tags category-keep priority-down))
>
Thanks, works well.
>
>>> - can I add priority 'd' to the list
>
> Yes:
>
> (setq org-lowest-priority ?D)
This too :-)
>
> Try `M-x org-customize RET' to find out more about the many
> options.
>
>>> - when you use the multiple file approach, do you use a
>>> lot of tags, or is it more usefull for a single file
>>> approach
>
> This is a matter of taste, and different people use different
> approaches. See the org-mode homepage for links to
> some of the discussions that happened here on this list.
>
>>> - can somebody explain the 43 folder approach
>
> Google is your friend
>
> http://wiki.tcl.tk/13200
>
>>> and how it
>>> is used with org-mode
>
> Org-mode has no direct support for a 43 folders
> setup - anyway, 43folders is, I thknk, mostly useful
> as structure in real paper, not on a computer.
>
> Hope this helps.
It helped; thanks a lot!
Greetings!
Fabian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-23 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-14 20:47 newbie has some questions Fabian Braennstroem
2007-05-20 20:45 ` Fabian Braennstroem
2007-05-20 21:56 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-05-23 21:05 ` Fabian Braennstroem [this message]
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