Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-23 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi M, it is not about programming and it is not about plain text files, but MS Office (Word) files.. Dropbox is not an option, maybe a document management system (DMS) with versioning, but it is not in place yet. And even if there is, how could I then track my workflow with Emacs? I find

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-23 Thread Julian Burgos
Hi Martin, I think that you should be using tags for this. For example: * Project XYZ :projectxyz:J.Smith: ** TODO Write Text ** WAIT Feedback on Text ** TODO check feedback ** TODO send to original author ** WAIT for Feedback In this case you are adding a tag with the project name and

[O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread M
Hi, I'm working with org-mode to document my work and to keep track of tasks and projects. At the moment there are many little projects where I * get a text from someone (or write it myself) * have to read and edit it * send it oer email to 1 or 2 other colleagues which have to read / edit it *

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
M elwood...@web.de writes: Hi, At the moment there are many little projects where I * get a text from someone (or write it myself) * have to read and edit it * send it oer email to 1 or 2 other colleagues which have to read / edit it * get it back and check the changes * maybe send the

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha M, M elwood...@web.de writes: Hi, I'm working with org-mode to document my work and to keep track of tasks and projects. At the moment there are many little projects where I * get a text from someone (or write it myself) * have to read and edit it * send it oer email to 1 or 2

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Nicolas Richard
Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@googlemail.com writes: If you/your fellow workers don't use GIT or another VCS, there is still dropbox - put your project text files in your dropbox folder and share them with other, there are automatic backups of older versions by Dropbox. I use one trick which might

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread M
Thanks Thorsten for your reply! it is not about programming and it is not about plain text files, but MS Office (Word) files.. Dropbox is not an option, maybe a document management system (DMS) with versioning, but it is not in place yet. And even if there is, how could I then track my workflow

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
M elwood...@web.de writes: it is not about programming and it is not about plain text files, but MS Office (Word) files.. Dropbox is not an option, maybe a document management system (DMS) with versioning, but it is not in place yet. And even if there is, how could I then track my workflow

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Nicolas Richard theonewiththeevill...@yahoo.fr writes: I use one trick which might be of interest to some people : when I have a dropbox folder with text (in my case, these are .tex and related files) files that will be worked on collaboratively, I first follow these steps in the directory :

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread M
Hi Thomas, thanks for your reply! Sure I know Bernt Hansen's web page and I'm already using his configuration for my system. (I'm still learning Emacs and org-mode, so it was easier to start with an existing setup). I already know and use the capture and refile feature, my problem is that I

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Thomas S. Dye
M elwood...@web.de writes: Hi Thomas, thanks for your reply! Sure I know Bernt Hansen's web page and I'm already using his configuration for my system. (I'm still learning Emacs and org-mode, so it was easier to start with an existing setup). I already know and use the capture and refile

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
M elwood...@web.de writes: I hope it is clear what I mean, there are a lot of small steps and each time creating a new task takes much time and I have to copy the name of the project again and again... Maybe it would be better to add all the notes about the progress as notes in the Logbook