On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Manish wrote: > Hello All, > > I would like to set up a daily agenda view with todos sorted in the > following order: > > 1. Timed TODOs > 2. DEADLINES > 3. TODO type - STARTED > 4. TODO type - NEXT > 5. TODO type - TODO > > I could find/figure out how to do #1 and #2 but #3-5 escape me. I > hope I did not miss it in the manual. > > The whole idea is to spend minimum brain cycles while picking up > next item from the agenda. One way that makes sense for me is to > reduce the size of region that I would scan while picking up next item > (i.e. set of NEXT todos). I think it's possible if one uses tags to > mark task state changes. Not sure how to do it with TODO keywords. I > wonder if people just pick up whatever is on the top of the agenda or > scan the whole list everytime you want to pick up next task? > > Hope it made sense. >
While searching for how people deal with this, I found this almost 3 year old wonderful post about strategies to approach your tasks: http://www.murtworld.com/2005/04/revolving-workflow-strategies.php . And with latest sorting options "effort-up" and "effort-down", I guess I have a sensible way to decide which next actions to pick up. Thanks Carsten. I am thinking it's even better than sorting on TODO keywords. Now if only I can sort tasks based on their creation dates as well. ;-) Just kidding. -- Manish _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode