From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eddward DeVilla" Subject: Re: depending TODOs, scheduling following TODOs automatically Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 23:55:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <6dbd4d000710080626i52f0f0t9354addc33c0efee@mail.gmail.com> <20071008134353.GA10774@odin.demosthenes.org> <877ilxmimn.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <877ilxnh44.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <20071009020103.GD10774@odin.demosthenes.org> <20071009035907.GE10774@odin.demosthenes.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1If78B-000897-LA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:55:43 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1If789-00088u-Pk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:55:43 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1If789-00088r-K4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:55:41 -0400 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.185]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1If787-0008Va-OJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:55:41 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 19so1439093fkr for ; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:55:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20071009035907.GE10774@odin.demosthenes.org> Content-Disposition: inline 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@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 10/8/07, Russell Adams wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:35:33PM -0500, Eddward DeVilla wrote: > > I'm now at the point that I have several such projects in flight that > > can block one another. One thing I think I'm eventually going to have > > to do is replace my checkbox lists to todo items lists. Given that > > multiple todo sequences are supported, that is now reasonable. > > I think the difference here is that I have settled into a routine of > grouping by logical type, not implementation order. This is why > dependencies appeal to me, because I can use them to order items > without disrupting the logical relationships. That's what I did to. But my checkboxes lists had been very small steps. Projects were large collection of very small tasks. Dependencies weren't that complicated. The work I've moved into, projects don't have many steps, but there are many more projects in flight with a lot of dependencies, hard deadlines and starting a project can be gated by arrival of hardware, or availability of people who are too busy to write docs. In any case, that part of the beauty of org. It has several tools for organizing and tracking info. You can put them together in a lot of different and useful ways. The list of tools keep growing and Carsten does an excellent job of keeping things consistent, easy to use and independent. It's rare that you have to learn a multiple features just to use the one you want. Yet the all interact well. You can learn it a piece at a time. I've been dying to see dependency ordering added to that list. Sounds like there is some use for dependency based triggering. They both could be cool, but so far I'm not really attached to any of the suggested implementations yet. Edd