Re: org-mode as an accountability system?

[Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com>]

Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Peter, 
without claiming being an expert org-mode user, I had the following
thoughts when reading your post: 

> I have an accountability partner with whom I exchange daily "committed
> actions." Every morning, I e-mail him a list of the tasks I commit to
> completing that day. 

Why sending per email? Why not getting a free private(!) git repo (1GB)
at assembla.com and cooperatively work on one or several org file(s) in
that repo?

> When I complete a task, I mark it DONE. If I don't complete a task
> that day, I mark it @didnotdo and manually cut and paste it to the
> next day. 
>  
> Every night, I send him a report of which actions I did and which ones
> I did not do. (I find I get so much more done since I started making
> daily commitments to someone other than myself.)
 
If you both work on the same file using git, the current state of
affairs will always be clear, as well as who did what at what time (and
pushed it to the repo). 

> 1. Given that I'm creating my daily task list manually, is there an
> easy way, when I mark a task @didnotdo, to automatically move it to
> the next day's list and change its state to @todo? 

When I have a TODO task in the agenda that I did not complete today, I
just change the date to tomorrow in the agenda using '>'. 
If you don't do that, it will appear anyway in the agenda as overdue
task. 


-- 
cheers,
Thorsten