From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David O'Toole Subject: another GTD question from dto Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:11:53 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Id53R-0002PO-Om for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:18:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Id53Q-0002O3-0X for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:18:25 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Id53P-0002Nt-OZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:18:23 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.236]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Id53P-0008DQ-Gg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:18:23 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so2555779wra for ; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:18:22 -0700 (PDT) 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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/