From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gez Subject: Re: Quicker refile? Capture & progress cookies. Using capture to count/tally Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:07:37 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87d3cqibvl.fsf@norang.ca> Reply-To: suleika@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40732) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRQyy-0001Vo-Lq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:08:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRQyt-0005D6-UO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:08:04 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:58259) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRQyt-0005D2-Ou for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:07:59 -0500 Received: by ywp17 with SMTP id 17so3241151ywp.0 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:07:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87d3cqibvl.fsf@norang.ca> 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-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Bernt Hansen Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Bernt, I think your system (and your writing about it) is fantastic and it has inspired me to develop mine. On 17 November 2011 23:10, Bernt Hansen wrote: > Gez writes: > I almost exclusively use capture to quickly file away things I don't > want to forget. =A0This goes to my refile.org as a level 1 heading and > isn't attached to anything yet. I was resisting doing that because I have different todo's for different files, but - it just occured to me - what's to stop me listing all of the possible todo's at the top of a refile org file? I might just do that. > All of my tasks that need to be refiled show up on my block agenda view > in the second section - immediately under today's agenda view. > I'm using this block agenda view regularly during the day and the tasks > to be refiled are constantly 'in my face' until I do something with > them. Yes, it would work if I added them to my block agenda. > I refile these items mostly from the agenda - I tend to get 2 or 3 of > them that are going to the same target so I'll mark them with 'm' and > refile with 'B r'. =A0My refile setup uses IDO completion for refile > targets and I find this works very well. =A0If I'm refiling to file x.org > under '* Tasks' I'll do something like C-c C-w x.org C-SPC tasks RET The > order of entering x.org/tasks doesn't matter - IDO is limiting the > targets to the entered data so I can match part of what is left in the > list. It's because of reading your set-up that I use IDO now. I't's amazing. Perhaps I need more practise in using it - cleverly selecting what I enter - since I end up having to type the whole file name including .org quite often. As good practise, I should probably consistently start with the headline, since my filenames are not unique enough (they match the equivalent archive file and also other headlines). > I've also set up refiling to remove DONE tasks from the list of > available completion targets. =A0This helps prevent mistakes where you > refile to an already done tree (or if you have repeating separate tasks > with the same =A0name only the open ones show up as refile targets.) I've had your page open for a while in firefox, gradually re-reading, working through and modifying my setup. I was going to tackle some clock-related stuff next, but now I think removing DONE tasks from the list of targets might be the next thing I add. >Refiling the thing to the right place isn't > important right now so I put that off. =A0Constantly having to move thing= s > to the right place as you capture them will be too slow IMHO. I do know what you mean. I think I've erroneously feared that if I insert a reminder out of context, I need to be more verbose than I would otherwise, or I will forget later what it means, but I can imagine that if I frequently check the items to refile, I probably won't forget. > Hope that helps, Very much indeed. Thank you. Geraldine