Re: Headline and numbered plain list

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Juri Artamonov <jartamonov@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>
>     Juri Artamonov <jartamonov@gmail.com> writes:
>    
>     > Thank you David, for your reply.
>     >
>     > The only reason I need this is just I can specify TAG(s) for headline
>     > and can't do this for any other record. Therefore, I need to have
>     > information about number of items, checked number and get items by
>     > TAG.
>     >
>     > Is there any other way to achieve this?
>    
>     Hi Juri,
>    
>     I think you should promote your list entries with checkboxes to full
>     headlines that support tags.  You can switch back and forth between
>     lists and headlines by selecting the text and using C-c * on the region.
>    
>     I would suggest you change from
>    
>     ,----
>     | ** 1. [ ] Text for first item
>     | ** 2. [ ] Text for second item
>     `----
>    
>     to
>    
>     ,----
>     | * Top level headline [/] [%]                    :sometags:
>     | ** TODO Text for first item
>     | ** TODO Text for second item
>     `----
>    
>     that way when you mark the TODO items DONE (equivalent to checking the
>     checkboxes) the cookies [/] and [%] update with the number of complete
>     and total items for the subheadings.

> Thank you Bernt for proposal. Yes, it can work but only TODO and DONE
> in this case not good words for the item but I will try.    Thank you,

You can use other keywords - just enter them in the file as

#+TODO: FOO | BAR

Use whatever makes sense for your scenario.  Alternatively set them up
in your global todo keyword list in org-todo-keywords.

-Bernt