From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: workflow objective... how to display ONE task, take notes on it, etc Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:35:08 -0500 Message-ID: <877hpjziub.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NpYFL-000317-Hg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:35:35 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55418 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NpYFJ-00030y-Ne for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:35:34 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpYFH-0003As-Aq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:35:33 -0500 Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:57830) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpYFH-0003AW-8v for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:35:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Michael Gilbert's message of "Wed\, 10 Mar 2010 15\:32\:30 -0800") 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: Michael Gilbert Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist Michael Gilbert writes: > Hi =E2=80=94 > Hi :) > Org-mode just keeps growing on me. Now I have workflow I want to check > out. It's my habit to try to clear my screen of everything except the > one task I am working on (and logging) and its associated documents > and tools. I want to try to implement this in orgmode. Ideally, it > would look something like this: Not sure I completely follow this but maybe this will work? > > - select a task from the AGENDA Find task in agenda, hit RET > - drill down to a view of just that task with only the task & > subordinate items visible You're already there, just narrow to subtree C-x n s C-c C-v shows you what is left to do > - edit those subordinate items, especially notes edit normally in org-mode > - log the time I spend there add timestamps, notes, or clock in as you work > - log out, save notes, change task status add timestamps, notes, or clock out > - return to agenda C-c a a (or whatever agenda view you want) > > Am I missing some obvious built-in way to do this? (I find that this > has happened so often, regardless of how esoteric my objective) that I > had better ask. Or could someone help me think through how it might be > done? I narrow to subtree and widen often - so I've bound these to F5 and S-F5 respectively. See http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#LimitingAgendaView and http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-2.5 for more details. HTH, Bernt