Hello Seb. It is great that you want to use org for your planning. It is the best tool I know of. Tim's advice sounds the best introductory one and others even gave you advanced advice. Nevertheless, you never told us how you use org and why it takes so much time for you. Perhaps you could take less time to plan and more time to do, without completely trashing the planning. Then you could increment the planning until it proves to be more time consuming. At that point you can reduce a little planning again. It is a tuning process.
Happy Hacking! Quiliro
