From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Kuettner Subject: Re: Another GTD question. Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:07:38 +0200 Message-ID: <451CF06A.10601@gmail.com> References: <451A70EB.2000003@optusnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GTFHX-0004dH-M1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:07:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GTFHW-0004cJ-Aa for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:07:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GTFHW-0004cD-5b for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:07:46 -0400 Received: from [212.227.126.187] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GTFMn-00019V-IG for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:13:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <451A70EB.2000003@optusnet.com.au> 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 >> to use Org-mode for GTD. ; self-documenting org-mode gtd-outline * @today ** TODO [#A] next action items I have to do today (hard landscape) ** TODO [#B] actions I want to do today (to plan ahead gives my day some flow, since I work at home alone ** TODO [#B] I do: org-agenda-include-diary t ** TODO [#B] agenda is set to org-agenda-include-all-todo t ** TODO [#B] so I can work nicely off the daily *Agenda* while at computer (*Agenda* = hard landscape) * @waiting for - a list - with waiting-for items * @agenda - another plain list - sometimes I have more than one - topic to share with a give persona - actually this list is named @messaging because agenda is an org-mode reserved word * @todo 1. a sorted list of all my other next actions for @computer, 2. @phone, @office, @desk contexts 3. I sort roughly in the order I want to tackle them 4. I try to get them all done 'til the next weekly review 5. again: since working from home there are not that much interruptions, so the whole gtdish @whatyoucandonow has to emulate some workday-structure too. 6. when @today is empty I work off this list * @projects 1. sorted list of projects inventory 2. I try to have only the projects her, I am working on this week or the next 3. project support materials are in directories in my home-dir * someday ** already commited but not this week DROPLINE: * maybe ** whatever I have in this bucket comes ** sorted by importance because it is so much * Special Areas Of Focus ** a structure of my *** working environment **** and it's subsets **** like for example 'office management **** or 'mac maintenance ** as a checklist to *** gain overview while higher-level thinking is enabled *** or to spin of new projects during weekly review * daily major activities I have a table here with things I want to do daily/weekly on a regular basis. Normally I print this out and mark the fields 'done after completion thorough the week. * incoming Some lines of text that tend to get appended her by some scripts or my hands from the device driver's CLI environment. (I run MAC OS X as device driver for my Emacs OS)