From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ali Tofigh Subject: Re: Suggestions needed for handling "ideas" Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:04:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: 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 1O1Qp0-0002oA-SG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:05:30 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53637 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1Qoz-0002kV-9G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:05:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1Qol-0006uw-EZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:05:18 -0400 Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.92.145]:38265) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1Qol-0006ug-9m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:05:15 -0400 Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so2260277qwk.24 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:05:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: John Hendy Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 16:38, John Hendy wrote: >> Frequently my notes on meetings contain ideas for stuff to try. Does >> anyone have any advice on how to handle these? > > I'm very 'idea' centered as well. See some 'ideas' below :) ;-) > What about: > > ### IDEA 1 ### > --- file: project_name.org --- > * Journals > ** Title > Notes about stuff > > * Ideas > ** TODO idea 1 > ** WORKING idea 2 > ** DONE idea 3 > > Something like this? This could track ideas in each project and if you do > use them as TODOs you can pull them up with agenda to check ideas across all > projects. What I would like is to keep my ideas in their context and not separately. Ideally I just want to write my meeting notes as usual but be able to somehow mark certain sections as ideas to come back to later. I keep my real todos, the ones I want to work on, separately as you suggest. > ### IDEA 2 ### > - a remember template for ideas? > - file keystrokes set to set the file to a particular project's file with a > simple key entry? > - or... one file called 'ideas.org' divided by projects (or just tag idea > headlines with the project name) > --- then use remember-mode to add ideas to that file when you're in > meetings/taking notes in a different, dedicated project file? Same as above... I really really would like some feature to be able to highlight some part of my text (or even better a list item) as an idea. This way my ideas could be interspersed in the level I'm in. It doesn't seem logical to me to create a new heading for each idea in the middle of my notes. === project1.org === * journal ** meeting 1 notes... - idea 1 :idea: - idea 2 :idea: notes contd... (this is same level still as notes above under heading "meeting 1") * tasks ** todo1 *** subtask1 ** todo2 > I'm so new I can hardly believe I'm proposing these ideas as I don't even > know that I know everything necessary to implement them! But... these are > things i ponder so I thought I'd share... I appreciate it. It's fun to share ideas! /Ali