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From: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:03:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2aammj56z.wl%dave@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sk0euk8k.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>

At Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:43:07 -0400,
Bernt Hansen wrote:
> 
> David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have to reschedule quite a few items daily.  Often they're
> > yesterday's items that I need to reschedule for today.  
> >
> >   `C-c C-s . RET' 
> >
> > is a bit much typing for that, so I re-bound `S' to
> > org-agenda-schedule.  But 
> >
> >   `S . RET' 
> >
> > is still a bit much.  I'd like it if the default when rescheduling was
> > always for today, instead of the date the item is already scheduled
> > for, so I could 
> >
> >   `S RET'
> >
> > in the usual case.  What about a customizable option to set the
> > default schedule-for date?
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Why are you rescheduling items everyday?  

Because there's always something I didn't get done yesterday, and I
often have pushed too many tasks forward onto a given day, and don't
want to see more than about 15 TODOs in my agenda on any given day.

> That seems like a lot of overhead to me.  What's wrong with leaving
> the item on the first scheduled date and just allow the agenda to
> show how many days it has already been scheduled for -- until you
> mark it DONE?

Because then they show up in the consciousness like a failure instead
of as just what I have to do today, and they tend to pile up and lead
to a state of despair, where the agenda is too daunting to face.  They
need to be processed.  I need to re-negotiate the contract I made with
myself about when they were getting done.

> Alternatively if it's a repeating task, you can use a single day
> repeater and just mark the item DONE to move it to the next day.

It's not.

> One thing I've been trying to do is minimize the amount of time I
> spend on overhead stuff for my tasks and trading that for time I
> actually do work on completing the tasks instead.

Thanks, but I need to do this to keep on track.

Regards,

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-10 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-10 13:50 Feature request David Abrahams
2010-10-10 15:43 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-10-10 18:03   ` David Abrahams [this message]
2010-10-10 16:30 ` Memnon Anon
2010-10-11 17:42   ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-10 18:12 ` Juan Pechiar
2010-10-11  7:21 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-11 14:18   ` David Abrahams
2011-01-15 12:13   ` Bastien
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-01-14 17:01 Raoul Comninos
2021-01-17  5:30 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-01-17  5:33   ` Raoul Comninos
2021-01-17  6:12     ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-01-17  6:18       ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-01-17  8:15         ` Raoul Comninos
2021-01-17  9:01           ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-01-17  9:20             ` Raoul Comninos
2021-01-18  2:17               ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-01-18  8:19                 ` Detlef Steuer
2021-01-18  1:46             ` Raoul Comninos
2021-01-18  2:19               ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-01-17  5:31 ` Ihor Radchenko
2013-06-25 15:22 feature request 42 147
2013-06-25 16:11 ` Christian Moe
2013-06-25 16:29   ` François Pinard
2013-06-25 18:31     ` Michael Brand
2011-07-18 21:36 Jude DaShiell
2011-07-18 23:13 ` Bastien
2011-07-19 12:10 ` MidLifeXis at PerlMonks
2009-03-23  2:14 Robert D. Crawford
2009-03-23  2:44 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-03-23 13:56   ` Robert D. Crawford
2009-03-23 11:24 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-24 16:53   ` Robert D. Crawford
2009-03-25 13:50     ` Charles Philip Chan
2009-03-25 14:51       ` Robert D. Crawford
2009-03-26  4:09 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-26 16:43   ` Robert D. Crawford
2007-11-18 18:13 Raimund Kohl-Füchsle
2007-11-19  3:14 ` Bastien
2006-09-25 23:58 Feature Request Russell Adams
2006-09-26 12:37 ` Carsten Dominik
2006-09-27 15:09   ` Russell Adams
2007-02-08 16:05     ` Russell Adams
2007-02-08 16:46       ` Carsten Dominik

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