From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jmcbray@carcosa.net (Jason F. McBrayer) Subject: Re: depending TODOs, scheduling following TODOs automatically Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:03:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6dbd4d000710080626i52f0f0t9354addc33c0efee@mail.gmail.com> <20071008134353.GA10774@odin.demosthenes.org> <877ilxmimn.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <20071008202652.GA18426@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> <87k5pxnicj.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <8a4d082edbc607440d4f12604b2f6332@science.uva.nl> <18295.1192118022@lap1.smtl.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IgNvM-00020B-P5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:03:44 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IgNvK-0001xg-09 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:03:44 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgNvJ-0001xZ-PY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:03:41 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IgNvJ-0005px-HG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:03:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <18295.1192118022@lap1.smtl.co.uk> (pete phillips's message of "Thu\, 11 Oct 2007 16\:53\:42 +0100") 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: pete phillips Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org pete phillips writes: > org-mode developed as a means of maintaining lists, and it excels at > this. Just because the GTD methodology uses the term Project doesn't > mean that we should turn org-mode into a fully fledged project > planning application. If you need project planning capability, then > you probably need all the bells and whistles that go with it - GANT > and PERT charts, critical path calculations, multi-user capabilities > etc. I agree. If you're using a GTD-like methodology, all you really need is something that is good at maintaining lists of things (and generating cross-cutting lists of things like project vs. context). If you are using a day-planner methodology, all you really need is to be able to maintain dated lists with attached statuses. Org-mode is really good for both of these things. Once you get into "enterprise" (read as over-bureaucratized) project planning, then you really need software designed for the bureaucratic requirements of your organization, or for your organziation's bureaucracy to be built around something like MS-Project. I don't think it's a good idea for org-mode to try to support this type of work. Gnome Planner might be a workable tool for this kind of job. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jason F. McBrayer jmcbray@carcosa.net | | If someone conquers a thousand times a thousand others in | | battle, and someone else conquers himself, the latter one | | is the greatest of all conquerors. --- The Dhammapada |