Leo writes: > Hi there, > > I was a planner user for a long time before changing to org mode for > organizing my tasks. After experiencing the transition uneasiness, I > can't live without org mode. It is so much more powerful. > > The maintenance of planner has shown increasing difficulty while the > development of org mode remains very active and org mode has been > included with GNU Emacs since 22.1. > > I wonder, would be appropriate to phase out planner? > > Best wishes, > -- > .: Leo :. [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ] .: [ GPG Key: 9283AA3F ] :. >
I hope not! I've tried org mode and still *much* prefer planner mode. I don't know what the maintenance problems you refer to are, but I've been a very satisfied planner mode user for about 3 years now. I have had at least 4 attempts at switching to org mode, but it just doesn't meet my needs when it comes to planning.. I do use org mode in some projects for notes, system design and brain storming, but planner mode is how I manage all my projects, various project tasks, project notes, time tracking and reporting etc. I find its task management much better than org modes, its reporting more convenient, its publishing more flexible and the general management of multiple projects easier. I think the Emacs community is big enough to support more than one mode that does similar things - this is emacs afterall and its strength is in being able to make it work how you want rather than forcing you to work how it wants. Consider for example, the numerous different mail agent modes, multiple modes that support reading newsgroups, multiple sgml/html/xml authoring modes, latex modes, etc. If it turns out nobody wants to contribute or maintain the mode, thats a different story. However, while there is an active user and maintenance base, I cannot see any reason to drop it just because emacs 22 has org mode. Tim > Planner-el-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/planner-el-discuss -- Tim Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two types of people in IT - those who do not manage what they understand and those who do not understand what they manage. _______________________________________________ Planner-el-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/planner-el-discuss
