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From: David O'Toole <dto@gnu.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: another GTD question from dto
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:11:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hcl8s2xi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)


I've been in my new "simple GTD" system for about a week, and it feels
very comfortable. Thanks again to Carsten and to the org-mode
community.

Now I see what was wrong with my previous uses of org-mode. I never
used any keywords other than TODO and DONE. This didn't give enough
information, so it meant that every task I might possibly ever do had
a TODO item. Because of the absurd number of TODO's I never used the
agenda feature much, and therefore didn't schedule many things; I
relied on my cell-phone for scheduling appointments, and never set
deadlines in my personal coding projects.

Now I am scheduling more things, and using the agenda views
regularly. 

But I am still having one problem. Right now I have a section in my
One Big Orgfile that looks like this: 

> * Books
> ** TODO Read "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
> *** DONE Find out about Wittgenstein's notation
> *** NEXT Chapter 5
> *** TODO Chapter 6
> *** TODO Chapter 7
> *** TODO Review entire book
> *** MAYBE [[http://s22318.tsbvi.edu/mathproject/appB-sec1.asp][Spoken mathematics]]
> ** TODO Read "The Analysis of Mind"
> *** NEXT Chapter 1 

This gives in the agenda:

 dto:              Scheduled:  NEXT Chapter 5
 dto:              Scheduled:  NEXT Chapter 1

Without any indication which book the chapters are from.  Can I fix
this with properties or tags or categories or something?

-- 
David O'Toole 
dto@gnu.org
http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/

next             reply	other threads:[~2007-10-03 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-03 14:11 David O'Toole [this message]
2007-10-03 15:33 ` another GTD question from dto Bernt Hansen
2007-10-03 20:55 ` Bastien
2007-10-06 23:23 ` Jason F. McBrayer

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