Hi Xavier, > a) I doing some non urgent (planned) DBA tasks (call this project A) > b) someone calls me (interrupting Project A) > c) I am doing what urgency of b) is needed > d) when c) is finished, I get back to project A > I think the Time Clocking section<http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-7.2>of this document <http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html%20> by Bernt Hansen would be quite helpful in your case. In fact, the entire document is excellent reading for getting things done using org-mode.
Thanks, Vedang On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Xavier Maillard<x...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I am not a serious org-mode user but I am trying to use it again > for daily task planning (which everytime I tried, failed at ;)). > > I did my lectures thanks to the worg project (Bernst and John > lecture were a real pleasure and sort of a non hittable dream to > me) but I still not clear how I could take advantage of all I > read (Bernst project concept is rather hard to understand for > me, it lacks examples IMO). > > My main problem is that, at my work position (DBA), urgency is > not given by what I plan to do but by whom is calling me -i.e if > someone is calling me, it often means "forget what you were doing > and do this instead". > > Given my fabulous talent of procrastination, this does not really > help get organized and thus this does not help in getting things > done. > > How would you use org-mode in this situation ? > > Ex: > > a) I doing some non urgent (planned) DBA tasks (call this project A) > b) someone calls me (interrupting Project A) > c) I am doing what urgency of b) is needed > d) when c) is finished, I get back to project A > > At my job, they often rules the "retro planning" concept which is > bloat. So how would you "manage" such situation in org-mode ? > > Thank you, > > Xavier > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Unix is simple. It takes a genius to understand it's simplicity. - Anon People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. - Calvin. Cheers, Vedang. Associate Software Engineer, Symantec http://vedang.wordpress.com http://mytechrants.wordpress.com
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