Re: orgmode for many continuous tasks?

[Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.homelinux.net>]

Hi Peter...

On 25/09/17 12:58, Peter Neilson wrote:
> Hmmm. I have similar problems, but on a somewhat more difficult level. 
> A lot of my tasks are farm-related and are thus self-driven rather 
> than org-mode-driven. For instance, two barn roofs need repair, and 
> seeing them listed as TODO in an agenda does nothing to get started on 
> them, or on the sub-tasks necessary to starting the work on the roofs. 
> But when I look at the roofs, and thus am reminded of "* TODO Repair 
> barn roofs", it's always when I'm already at work on something 
> immediately more pressing.
>
> But it gets worse! If I think of a task that needs to be done, and 
> write it into one of my TODO lists, then I tend to ignore it. Adding 
> it to the schedule dismisses it from any immediate concern, and (as I 
> alluded before) much of my work is outside, on the farm, nowhere near 
> my computer. It's almost like Ko-Ko's solution in G&S's operetta 'The 
> Mikado':
>
>   Ko-Ko: When Your Majesty says "Let a thing be done", it’s as good as 
> done, practically it is done, because Your Majesty’s will is law. Your 
> Majesty says "Kill a gentleman", and the gentleman is to be killed, 
> consequently that gentleman is as good as dead, practically he is 
> dead, and if he is dead, why not say so?
>   The Mikado: I see. [Dramatic Pause] Nothing could possibly be 
> more...satisfactory!
>
> My problem with org mode itself thus becomes yet another action item 
> (to be ignored):
>
> * TODO Devise a way to project my agenda (in unavoidable brilliance) 
> onto the side of the barn, or perhaps embroider it into the fleece of 
> my sheep (who * TODO need to be shorn).
>
> Plausible (or implausible) solutions to my problem or to Mycroft's are 
> hereby solicited.
>

If I'm understanding correctly, part of your problem is that you don't 
have org-mode with you when you're in the places that you can get things 
done.  In that case, part of the answer might be having your org-mode on 
a mobile device.

I've just started using a new Android phone, with Orgzly on the phone, 
and a manual sync process between the files that Orgzly works on and my 
main org-mode files (which I keep in a git server, and update from 
multiple laptops). So far I've only been doing this for 1 day, but it 
looks promising.

Regards - Neil