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From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)
To: Gary Oberbrunner <garyo@oberbrunner.com>
Cc: Orgmode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: TODO items in lists (not headings)
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:48:57 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fvfqq53q.fsf@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFChFyguy-h89AZ4OjD=+RvNsAT6eh7KfWmLh9zG4C=CCErOfA@mail.gmail.com> (Gary Oberbrunner's message of "Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:39:11 -0400")

Aloha Gary,

Gary Oberbrunner <garyo@oberbrunner.com> writes:

> Gary:
>   My reason for not using TODO is just that it'd be ugly and confusing to
> put a heading in the middle of a list.
>
>   Compare this:
> * Meeting report
> ** Meeting 1
>   - a thing that happened
>   - another thing that happened
>   - TODO: email everyone about all the things
>   - some more things that happened
>
>   to this:
> * Meeting report
> ** Meeting 1
>   - a thing that happened
>   - another thing that happened
> ***TODO: email everyone about all the things
>   - some more things that happened

One solution is to use a capture template for TODO items and then refile
them.  I picked this up from Bernt Hansen and like it a lot:

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Capture

hth,
Tom

-- 
Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-17  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-16 20:21 TODO items in lists (not headings) Gary Oberbrunner
2014-09-16 20:32 ` Tory S. Anderson
2014-09-16 22:39   ` Gary Oberbrunner
2014-09-17  3:48     ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2014-09-17 12:45       ` Gary Oberbrunner
2014-09-18  0:41         ` Nick Dokos
2014-11-21  4:19           ` Bernt Hansen's rene
2014-11-21  8:36             ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-11-22 18:08               ` J. David Boyd
2014-12-01 10:22               ` rene
2014-11-23 18:46             ` Bernt Hansen
2014-09-18 16:23         ` TODO items in lists (not headings) Subhan Michael Tindall
2014-09-18 18:49           ` Gary Oberbrunner
2014-09-23 13:34             ` Gary Oberbrunner

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