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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-To: larch@yhetil.org X-Migadu-Country: US ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1662123315; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references:list-id:list-help:list-unsubscribe: list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=3sprnJKz6I3Ix7iC04kfFYjbFAxy8xTHkayhlTI56Lc=; b=IbWZw77cADrZ52E1X3jcWLpHO66sFO1ukqroFNKymX7LiAAGV1P/PJkcdXy2secu5O5Ho/ 4aY7huJ0NRzNuI6DpDPrDsaOnX1tfsXx9lHEUrNHIN+crqNVQOj5BKN/6rx6PfWKgPdF1W EPvSTrxxLYUQ/crHKKZ0zbu3sOKWImqH3V/b+7f/zW7Tf6gy5uMmGyr6D4qy1Ph8fq3OdC anlxalFBsXS25arF4Aq5nE+SD8k6oc7GGur7blSNjZWWIgFiatPz6ucTxYP5W3VnvRwXfQ b9OawirHrU3Ptb6xjBEWwiKAshlrcp1LDxv/1PErM3sUwqSjBnbVouChqCBwWA== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1662123315; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=GRFGWJPKHTt6Y/UxLdauAEwMAG5xVbwstd12ypJ4UTxAfRiNW3qnuvpD35fHniK2mADBlf r2H2ZzF05vQ8Gk51fYZDuXiF81A86M2rqsDVMkwpfHC9dLODm6NJO6/4I17fj1s2FfrKI3 y+d3euKOd8hd4RJsWSD1JorM2wxDPHXXeB0NiFbGbjxf+Gy+AJEzjWBd2febLiVlGQtQOp 2cxHBwZXhsVv16mjMvWWk01FDrh8WrehhFkd6PkUiSr1vOS5uEVL7Afk3PneDBoTVlJ9MY HrtcnnJ8Bwx8hHlmqC/SJgfXfVVNUzE7jyXcs1p/gWoRRT+BSZN0NmEDU8XvvQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=jqW7OAB6; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -1.77 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=jqW7OAB6; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 9FA85A45D X-Spam-Score: -1.77 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn1.migadu.com X-TUID: kVhNWq8N6DAx Eduardo Suarez writes: > I have lots of tasks (todos) and I would like to create a long backlog based on > my perceived priority. > > I was thinking to deal with them in the following way: > > - divide them in groups (categories or similar), > - manually sort priority for every group, > - mergesort groups, that is, start merging groups in pairs, and manually sort > for every step the union group until I have a large sorted backlog. > > For this to be practical, I would need an easy way to sort manually a group of > tasks and get them assigned automatically a priority (or any other hack) so > that priority ordering matches manual ordering. > > Any idea about how to get this done? It sounds like you just want to have a list of active projects and select one top-priority task at a time from each project. The projects can be simply a headline with all the tasks listed as children. I do not recommend assigning priority as a number. From my experience, it is much easier to order the tasks manually inside a project. You will need to re-order things as the project progresses anyway. Fiddling with numbers will quickly become unmanageable. I also do not recommend listing _all_ the tasks. It is much more productive (again, from experience) to list the one top-priority task for each project and nothing more until you finish the current task batch. In GTD, this is usually done by assigning NEXT todo keyword to the top-priority task, while all others are assigned as TODO. You may also leverage org-edna package to flip TODO->NEXT once you complete the current NEXT task. -- Ihor Radchenko, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at https://orgmode.org/. 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