More on GTD, browse todos by priority or creation date

More on GTD, browse todos by priority or creation date

[T o n g]

Hi,

I just found out this wonderful tool, and have gone through all the 
tutorials. What I haven't figured out is how to browse todo items by 
priority or creation date. Let me explain in details.

On reading the tutorials, I just found that that I've developed a 
methodology to handle things I need to do almost exactly as David Allen's 
Getting Things Done. Moreover, the methodology is backed up with my home-
grown simple emacs todo-mode (~200 lines), which allows me,

- track everything that need to be done
- track their logged/creation time
- assign priority to each todo item
- put arbitrary amount of info under each item

All these are important to me, because most of the todo items are 
unrelated and belongs to the Someday/Maybe class, which get mind swept 
into my huge todo file, for me to recall all the things that I thought 
about doing. 

What to do next is not only decided based on context, how much time  
available and my energy level, but also most importantly, their 
priorities. My todo-mode allows arbitrary priority levels, and todo 
item's priority can be changed with a single click. 

Ok, enough off-track babbling, what I want to know is that weather org-
mode can somewhat allows me to assign arbitrary levels of priority to my 
todo list, and let me browse them in their priority order (so that high 
priority items get done first). The creation date is another way for me 
to browse my todo items to see what have been on the list for too long. 

Thanks for your feedbacks

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Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)
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Re: More on GTD, browse todos by priority or creation date

[David Maus]

Hi T o n g,

At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:47:39 +0000 (UTC),
T o n g wrote:
> 
> Ok, enough off-track babbling, what I want to know is that weather org-
> mode can somewhat allows me to assign arbitrary levels of priority to my 
> todo list, and let me browse them in their priority order (so that high 
> priority items get done first). The creation date is another way for me 
> to browse my todo items to see what have been on the list for too long. 
> 

Orgmode does indeed have a priority feature that seems to fit your
needs. You may check the Orgmode manual [1], Chapter 5.4 "Priorities" and
maybe Chapter 10.4.3 "Sorting of agenda items".

Regards,

  --David

[1] http://orgmode.org/manual/

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Re: More on GTD, browse todos by priority or creation date

[Andrew Hyatt]

org-mode's priority doesn't actually work well with GTD.  In org-mode,
priority is not inherited, so you can't prioritize projects, only
tasks.  Usually when this has come up on the list before, the answer
is to use tags for priority when you want to prioritize tasks.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:41 AM, David Maus <maus.david@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi T o n g,
>
> At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:47:39 +0000 (UTC),
> T o n g wrote:
>>
>> Ok, enough off-track babbling, what I want to know is that weather org-
>> mode can somewhat allows me to assign arbitrary levels of priority to my
>> todo list, and let me browse them in their priority order (so that high
>> priority items get done first). The creation date is another way for me
>> to browse my todo items to see what have been on the list for too long.
>>
>
> Orgmode does indeed have a priority feature that seems to fit your
> needs. You may check the Orgmode manual [1], Chapter 5.4 "Priorities" and
> maybe Chapter 10.4.3 "Sorting of agenda items".
>
> Regards,
>
>  --David
>
> [1] http://orgmode.org/manual/
>
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Re: More on GTD, browse todos by priority or creation date

[Giovanni Ridolfi]

--- Lun 16/11/09, T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> ha scritto:
Hi, Tong,
>  What I haven't figured out is how to browse todo
> items by priority 

in the file you can sort them: select the 
region and C-c ^
(Manual, 2.5 Structure editing)

I think this can also be done in the agenda, 
please see:
     [10.4.3 Sorting of agenda items]
In the manual there also custom commands
you can adapt to your workflow.

> or creation date. 

I don't know.

> I want to know is that
> weather org-
> mode can somewhat allows me to assign arbitrary levels of
> priority to my todo list, 

If you open the Org-mode manual
then search (C-s) for "prior" or "sort"

I think you'll find at least some hints, 
if not the solution itself.  e.g. (5.4 Priorities) 

  By default, Org mode supports three priorities: 
  `A', `B', and `C'.  `A' is the highest priority. 

you can also use numbers 
   (2000 for priority `A', 1000 for `B', and 0 for `C'),
   [10.4.3 Sorting of agenda items]

cheers,
Giovanni