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[Robin Green]

Is there any equivalent to planner-mode's planner-rank.el for org-mode? I want to automatically compute some sort of combined measure of urgency and importance for each of my TODOs, and rank them according to this measure. (Of course, I could write my own code to do this, and I might do just that if there isn't anything suitable already out there.)
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Robin

Re: urgency & importance (was: (no subject)

[Giovanni Ridolfi]

--- Ven 18/9/09, Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> ha scritto:
Robin,
please, next time remember to write a "subject" for your messages.

> Is there any equivalent to
> planner-mode's planner-rank.el for org-mode? I want to
> automatically compute some sort of combined measure of
> urgency and importance for each of my TODOs, 
> > and rank them according to this measure.

what about priority?

http://orgmode.org/manual/Priorities.html#Priorities

cheers,
Giovanni

Re: urgency & importance (was: (no subject)

[Matt Lundin]

Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> writes:

> Is there any equivalent to planner-mode's planner-rank.el for
> org-mode? I want to automatically compute some sort of combined
> measure of urgency and importance for each of my TODOs, and rank them
> according to this measure. (Of course, I could write my own code to do
> this, and I might do just that if there isn't anything suitable
> already out there.)

Could you please explain what you mean by urgency and importance? I'm
not familiar with that distinction.

You might want to checkout the docstring for the variable
org-agenda-sorting-strategy. There are lots of ways to sort items in the
agenda, along with the possibility of creating your own sorting
functions.

Best,
Matt

Re: Re: urgency & importance (was: (no subject)

[Peter Westlake]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:40 -0400, "Matt Lundin" <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:


> Could you please explain what you mean by urgency and importance? I'm
> not familiar with that distinction.

Urgency refers to how soon things need to be done, and importance is how
much they matter regardless of time. For instance, developing new skills
is important, but doesn't need to be done this minute; drinking your
coffee before it goes cold is urgent, but not very important.

It's common to see tasks drawn on a matrix with urgency and importance
as axes. Time management often tries to emphasize the
important-but-not-urgent quadrant, which is easy to neglect in favour of
urgent-but-not-important.

Peter.