From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=A9bastien_Vauban?= Subject: Re: Request for suggestions about best practices: tracking responses Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:08:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87ocbpo81o.fsf@mundaneum.com> References: <4C9A0CD4.7090704@sift.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: 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-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Hi Robert, Robert Goldman wrote: > Often now I have org-mode tasks that I move to WAIT status when I send > someone an email to get some next step done. I do that as well. Though, I'm still testing what my own process must be li= ke. > The problem is that I have a hard time getting back to those tasks when > I get a response email (or phone call). > > There is nothing salient about these that means that when I get a > response email, I see the task and can mark it as completed. > > Does anyone have a good solution for this? > > I have a hazy idea that always having a special agenda window open with > a special agenda display of tasks awaiting responses might do the trick, > but few ideas about how to accomplish this in practice. Presumably a > special TODO status for awaiting response, and special agenda view... > does that sound reasonable? I notice that the manual refers to "THE > agenda." Is it possible to have multiple agenda windows so that I could > always have the "waiting for response" agenda up w/o cutting off my > access to other views? As far as I fully understand your request, what you need is a custom agenda report: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '(("W" "Waiting" todo "WAIT" nil))) #+END_SRC --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Best regards, Seb --=20 S=C3=A9bastien Vauban _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode