Re: [O] GTD in org mode - in which project is this action ?

2012-09-20 Thread Memnon Anon
Clément Mayet cma...@gmail.com writes: *I think the main difficulty is to get the project to which the action belongs as it is only a heading above the action. My first question is : should I use properties, tags , something else ?* I use properties for projects. Depending on your numbers of

[O] GTD in org mode - in which project is this action ?

2012-09-19 Thread Clément Mayet
Hi all, I've discovered emacs org-mode a few days ago, and I think I've finally found the tool I've been looking for for monthes. I'm a PhD student and I feel the need to organize my thoughts tasks and notes. I would like to implement a GTD-like workflow in org-mode. I used to use tiddlywiki

Re: [O] GTD in org mode - in which project is this action ?

2012-09-19 Thread Bastien
Hi Clément, Clément Mayet cma...@gmail.com writes: Given an action in a project, I would like to see the action's project in the agenda view, and even better, to order actions by project (or by context, then by project). Does somebody have any hints on how to do that ? My top-level

Re: [O] GTD in org mode - in which project is this action ?

2012-09-19 Thread Clément Mayet
Thank you Bastien for your quick answer. My understanding of the C-c C-x command is that you restrict the agenda view to one headline (i;e project in our case). How do you use the :CATEGORY: property then ? Do you copy the project's name in that property (or something shorter that makes you

Re: [O] GTD in org mode - in which project is this action ?

2012-09-19 Thread Bastien
Hi Clément, Clément Mayet cma...@gmail.com writes: Thank you Bastien for your quick answer. My understanding of the C-c C-x command is that you restrict the agenda view to one headline (i;e project in our case). How do you use the :CATEGORY: property then ? Do you copy the project's name in

Re: [O] GTD in org mode - in which project is this action ?

2012-09-19 Thread Clément Mayet
Thank you ! That could do the trick. However I planned to use categories (in fact file names) for the different areas (Personnal, Work, Research, Administrative). If I do as you suggest, I could probably use tags for these areas instead of category... Clément 2012/9/19 Bastien b...@altern.org

Re: [O] GTD in org mode - in which project is this action ?

2012-09-19 Thread Bastien
Clément Mayet cma...@gmail.com writes: Thank you ! That could do the trick. However I planned to use categories (in fact file names) for the different areas (Personnal, Work, Research, Administrative). If I do as you suggest, I could probably use tags for these areas instead of category...