On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Charles Cave<charles_c...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: [...] > http://www.slideshare.net/charles_in_oz/auto-focus-1543619 > > When I first learnt about this system I played around with using > org-mode to implement it, but found the pen and paper solutions > was best. I still use org-mode to capture tasks when I am at the > computer and want to capture URLs to explore and so on.
Charles, thanks for sharing your autofocus presentation. This is the first I've heard of it and I found it interesting. In reading more about the technique, I found comments from several others also stating a preferece for using pen and paper. I played around today with autofocus using an outliner (not org-mode yet) and find I don't really have an urge to try a paper based system. I know being tethered to electronic devices is not always convenient, but for me the apparent benefits are attractive. I found it quite useful to be able to re-order the items so I could group the completed items together at the top of a given "page" and see the active items all together towards the bottom of the "page". Also, being able to use body text and sub-outline structure to capture notes related to the task item was invaluable. I implemented a "page" in the outliner by creating a headline labeled "page 1" and inserted 25 or so empty child headlines. I added tasks to the list just as described in your presentation. For completed items I record the date and change the font of the headline to strikethrough (not sure how I would do that in org-mode). I change the font of the page headline I'm currently processing to bold and I change the font of the item I'm currently processing to bold. Having worked just a single day, I haven't quite made it onto the second page yet. When I do reach the second page, it will just be a matter of inserting a "page 2" headline which is a sibling following the "page 1" headline and inserting 25 or so more empty child headlines. As I'm working on an item, I am free to add notes in the item's body and/or subtree. When it is time to pick another task to work on, visibility cycling can quickly make only the tasks for the current "page" visible. Was your org-mode implementation that you found inferior to pen and paper similar to this? Brian _______________________________________________ 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
