From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Manish Subject: Re: Sorting agenda items Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:36:24 +0530 Message-ID: References: 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 1Jmkg9-0000uk-JG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:06:37 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jmkg7-0000uS-1y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:06:36 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jmkg6-0000uP-R5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:06:34 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jmkg6-0004WD-55 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:06:34 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.187]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jmkg5-0004H0-3x for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:06:33 -0400 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id a20so73351tia.10 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:06:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: org-mode On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Manish wrote: > Hello All, > > I would like to set up a daily agenda view with todos sorted in the > following order: > > 1. Timed TODOs > 2. DEADLINES > 3. TODO type - STARTED > 4. TODO type - NEXT > 5. TODO type - TODO > > I could find/figure out how to do #1 and #2 but #3-5 escape me. I > hope I did not miss it in the manual. > > The whole idea is to spend minimum brain cycles while picking up > next item from the agenda. One way that makes sense for me is to > reduce the size of region that I would scan while picking up next item > (i.e. set of NEXT todos). I think it's possible if one uses tags to > mark task state changes. Not sure how to do it with TODO keywords. I > wonder if people just pick up whatever is on the top of the agenda or > scan the whole list everytime you want to pick up next task? > > Hope it made sense. > While searching for how people deal with this, I found this almost 3 year old wonderful post about strategies to approach your tasks: http://www.murtworld.com/2005/04/revolving-workflow-strategies.php . And with latest sorting options "effort-up" and "effort-down", I guess I have a sensible way to decide which next actions to pick up. Thanks Carsten. I am thinking it's even better than sorting on TODO keywords. Now if only I can sort tasks based on their creation dates as well. ;-) Just kidding. -- Manish