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On 01/14/2011 09:35 PM, Tommy Kelly wrote:
> I can see that TODOs can be organized using tags, or categories, or
> files, or simply subtrees (or several of those). Is there an obvious
> choice?

My vote is "NO", org is really about finding what works best for you,
and the plethora of choices reflects that different people work in
different ways!  Try out a few until something feels natural.

>
> All I'm really looking for is a basic organization, to let me "group"
> tasks of different broad functional areas -- accounting, recruitment,
> IT, and so on.
>
> And I like the idea discussed in http://orgmode.org/org.html, where
> tasks get captured into a single refile.org file and then later moved
> about into their classification homes.
>
> But of those various ways of classifying, is there one to be preferred?
>
> thanks,
> Tommy
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