From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Tommy Kelly <tommy.kelly@verilab.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Basic organization question
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:23:32 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8139ou67c3.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2zkr2u9df.fsf@verilab.com> (Tommy Kelly's message of "Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:35:40 -0600")
> 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?
From my own experience, Orgmode 'favors' tags more than categories i.e.,
there is more bells and whistles surrounding tags rather than
categories.
If you are starting out, my recommendation would be to fit/think (or
re-fit/re-think) your personal workflow in terms of tags rather than
categories.
The key principle is tags to headline/task association is dynamic while
tags to category association is persistent.
>
> 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.
>
I suggest one file for each with a FILETAG attached to them. It might
help you to define some sequence and specialized TODO keywords.
Have zero tags to begin with and limit your tags as much as possible.
Jambunathan K.
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-15 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-15 3:35 Basic organization question Tommy Kelly
2011-01-15 4:50 ` Erik Iverson
2011-01-15 5:11 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-01-15 12:07 ` Tommy Kelly
2011-01-17 2:58 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-01-19 17:54 ` Tommy Kelly
2011-01-19 18:40 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-01-15 5:53 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
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2011-01-19 17:57 Tommy Kelly
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