Re: logging transitional states

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Dec 19, 2006, at 14:18, Dmitri Minaev wrote:

> On 12/18/06, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
>> Currently there is not, but this looks like a useful extension.
>
> Actually, there are at least two other ways to reach the goal and I
> use them both:
> a) simple timestamps (like: <2006-12-18 Mon> invoice rcvd) and
> b) subtasks for every step of the process. This solution works better
> with 'project templates', when a whole subtree is pasted automatically
> and a simple macro does it easily. The subtasks may clutter the
> agenda, though.

Yes, this is a good way, but indeed can clutter your todo list.

> So, the extension is not really as useful and it's worth implementing
> only if you won't have to trade the largest advantage of your
> magnificent Org-mode -- simplicity :).

This would be a problem for allowing many DONE states, or for
allowing different TODO state sequences in a single buffer.
For tracking state changes, I don't think it is a problem,
configuration will be as simple as

    #+SEQ_TODO: TODO ORDERED INVOICE PAYED RECEIVED SENT
    #+STARTUP: lognotestate

and the rest will happen automatically.

- Carsten



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