From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ali Tofigh Subject: Suggestions needed for handling "ideas" Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:46:24 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1Pax-0002rH-UZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:46:55 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49996 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1Pav-0002r9-KC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:46:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1Pat-0004lK-Oc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:46:53 -0400 Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.92.144]:15347) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1Pat-0004lB-Lt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:46:51 -0400 Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so2230800qwk.24 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:46:50 -0700 (PDT) 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 Hello everyone, I'm a new user of org-mode, and seeing the great potential, I am trying to switch to org-mode for handling my day-to-day tasks. I'm going to start off by using org-mode to handle my projects and I need some advice. I like to keep my projects self-contained. Therefore I use one org-file for each project. Each org-file contains two main headlines: journal and tasks. Under journal I collect all kinds of information: meeting notes, relevant stuff I've read, urls, etc. I also write down what I have done every few days. The journal entries are sorted chornologically. Under tasks I keep all todo items. Frequently my notes on meetings contain ideas for stuff to try. Does anyone have any advice on how to handle these? I don't want to keep them as todo items in the journal since I like to keep changing the todos (e.g., dividing them into subtasks) and I don't want those changes to appear in the journal. My initial thought was to create one headline for each idea and tag it with ":idea:". I could then easily go through all ideas in a project and choose the ones I want to work on by creating todo items. Those ideas would then be further tagged with ":handled:" or something similar. This way I could search for unhandled ideas in my projects. As an alternative I could use separate todo keywords for todos and ideas. Any specific advice or just general thoughts are most appreciated. Cheers, /Ali