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* Basic organization question
@ 2011-01-15  3:35 Tommy Kelly
  2011-01-15  4:50 ` Erik Iverson
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From: Tommy Kelly @ 2011-01-15  3:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

I can see that TODOs can be organized using tags, or categories, or
files, or simply subtrees (or several of those). Is there an obvious
choice? 

All I'm really looking for is a basic organization, to let me "group"
tasks of different broad functional areas -- accounting, recruitment,
IT, and so on.

And I like the idea discussed in http://orgmode.org/org.html, where
tasks get captured into a single refile.org file and then later moved
about into their classification homes.

But of those various ways of classifying, is there one to be preferred?

thanks,
Tommy

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* Re: Basic organization question
@ 2011-01-19 17:57 Tommy Kelly
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Tommy Kelly @ 2011-01-19 17:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bernt; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

Bernt,

Still digging into this. You said:

> TAGS are much more flexible for controlling what you see on
> the agenda and I use tags for filtering what is displayed on the agenda.

Am I right though that from the point of view of clocking tasks, you
rely not on TAGS but on having each task live inside the appropriate
file/heading/sub-heading/sub-sub-heading and so on?

Or do you have some jiggery pokery to let clocking and clock tables be
sensitive to TAGs?

Overall it looks like you use file-and-level-of-subheading to categorize things
according to general area (clientX, clientY, or accounting, research,
and so on), and then you use TAGs in addition to orthogonally categorize
things according to some aspect of your workflow (it's a phone call, it
has GTD context @wibble, it needs refiled, and so on). Is that remotely
accurate?

thanks,
Tommy


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