From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Newell Subject: Re: orgmode for many continuous tasks? Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:24:11 -1000 Message-ID: <87mv5f209w.fsf@bobnewell.net> References: <20170925072151.GA18049@reactor-core.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39282) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxLfw-0003qQ-0g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:23:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxLfr-0005a4-VW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:23:32 -0400 Received: from mail-pg0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c05::230]:55212) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxLfr-0005X9-Lo for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:23:27 -0400 Received: by mail-pg0-x230.google.com with SMTP id c137so8599689pga.11 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:23:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([72.253.70.70]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a29sm84700pgn.75.2017.09.27.16.23.23 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:23:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170925072151.GA18049@reactor-core.org> (Mycroft Jones's message of "Mon, 25 Sep 2017 00:21:51 -0700") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Mycroft Jones writes: > I'm wondering if org-mode can do this: > > I have many tasks. Some are one off. But many are tasks that will take a > period of time, days, weeks, months. I need to schedule a bit of time every > day. Over time I can complete the tasks by plugging away. But I have so many. > Half hour chunks work for some tasks, 1 or 2 or 3 hour chunks work best for > others. Aloha, This sort of thing is really a project management issue. While I know you're asking for an org-mode solution, something like Task Juggler will do the kind of scheduling you want. But it would be a fair amount of work entering progress and updating scenarios every night. What is really needed is a good org-mode/Task Juggler interface. (There is an Emacs interface but it's meant for creating and running Task Juggler scenarios directly.) I'm not necessarily volunteering to write one, but it could be done. However this doesn't help you in the near term. To further the concept: If TODOs had due dates/time estimates/time spent as perhaps additional properties, and there was a better way to express dependencies (I think there is already an org-mode adjunct for this), some coding could turn this into a Task Juggler input file. There is already a project management adjunct for Emacs, but it doesn't do scheduling. -- Bob Newell Honolulu, Hawai`i * Via Gnus/BBDB/Org/Emacs/Linux *