Re: [ANN] orgbox: Mailbox-like task scheduling in org-agenda.

[Yasuhito Takamiya <yasuhito@gmail.com>]

Hi Alan,

> It would be great to be able to configure some of the hard-coded dates
> and time, such as:
> - later today: number of hours (currently 3)
> - start of evening: currently 18:00
> - start of day: currently 08:00
> - start of weekend: currently Saturday (you could use
>   `org-agenda-weekend-days' as you are doing for the `orgbox-weekend-p'
>   predicate)
> - start of week: currently Monday, at 08:00
> - someday: currently in 3 months

Added the following defcustoms.

- orgbox-start-time-of-day
- orgbox-start-day-of-week
- orgbox-start-time-of-weekends
- orgbox-start-day-of-weekends
- orgbox-start-time-of-evening
- orgbox-later
- orgbox-someday

https://github.com/yasuhito/orgbox

Thanks for your feedback!

Yasuhito


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Alan Schmitt
<alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> wrote:
> Hello Yasuhito,
>
> Yasuhito Takamiya <yasuhito@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> For your information, to anyone interested in GTD and org-mode,
>> I am developing a tiny tool for org-mode to schedule your agenda tasks
>> easily like Mailbox iPhone app (http://www.mailboxapp.com/).
>>
>> https://github.com/yasuhito/orgbox
>> (This is already available on MELPA.)
>>
>> Usage:
>>   - Open org-agenda view.
>>   - Move your cursor to a task you want to schedule and type C-c C-s
>>     (or M-x orgbox).
>>   - Select one of the scheduling method from the menu shown on the
>>     minibuffer.
>>
>> - [l] Later Today
>> - [e] This Evening
>> - [t] Tomorrow
>> - [w] This Weekend
>> - [n] Next Week
>> - [i] In a Month
>> - [s] Someday
>> - [p] Pick Date
>>
>> If anyone is interested in being involved in taking this forward,
>> that'd be great.
>
> I had a quick look at your code and this looks like a nice idea. I have
> a couple comments.
>
> It would be great to be able to configure some of the hard-coded dates
> and time, such as:
> - later today: number of hours (currently 3)
> - start of evening: currently 18:00
> - start of day: currently 08:00
> - start of weekend: currently Saturday (you could use
>   `org-agenda-weekend-days' as you are doing for the `orgbox-weekend-p'
>   predicate)
> - start of week: currently Monday, at 08:00
> - someday: currently in 3 months
>
> I don't know how difficult it would be to make these user configurable.
> In any case, I find this is a very useful addition to scheduling in org
> mode.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan