Re: [O] Overall organization/setup for org mode: Projects and Tasks

2011-09-18 Thread Alan E. Davis
Max: This is an awesome, thought provoking infodump. Full of ideas that I can use. Thank you, Alan On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Max Mikhanosha m...@openchat.com wrote: Below is infodump on how I use org-mode personally.. You are welcome to poach ideas. Generally I'm pretty happy

Re: [O] Overall organization/setup for org mode: Projects and Tasks

2011-09-17 Thread Max Mikhanosha
Below is infodump on how I use org-mode personally.. You are welcome to poach ideas. Generally I'm pretty happy with my setup, and do not plan to do any radical changes to it. Wall of text warning. 1. Org file per project, with single top level heading.. Each file has a #+TAGS cookie that

Re: [O] Overall organization/setup for org mode: Projects and Tasks

2011-09-17 Thread David Rogers
Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com writes: --0016364d213773a53a04acea4da9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I've been using org-mode for a few years. My agenda is cluttered with tasks that are weeks and even months past due. I am this close to declaring orgmode bankruptcy and

[O] Overall organization/setup for org mode: Projects and Tasks

2011-09-14 Thread Alan E. Davis
I've been using org-mode for a few years. My agenda is cluttered with tasks that are weeks and even months past due. I am this close to declaring orgmode bankruptcy and starting from scratch, except my current setup works so well for other things. Might still do that, but I want to ask for

Re: [O] Overall organization/setup for org mode: Projects and Tasks

2011-09-14 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Alan, I found myself in a similar situation a while back and it helped me to do a weekly review. I base mine on Bernt Hansen's experience: http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-11-1 Every Monday a task pops up reminding me to complete the weekly review. Clicking on the task takes me to

Re: [O] Overall organization/setup for org mode: Projects and Tasks

2011-09-14 Thread Russell Adams
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:43:28AM -0700, Alan E. Davis wrote: I've been using org-mode for a few years. My agenda is cluttered with tasks that are weeks and even months past due. I am this close to declaring orgmode bankruptcy and starting from scratch, except my current setup works so well

Re: [O] Overall organization/setup for org mode: Projects and Tasks

2011-09-14 Thread Olaf Dietsche
Hi Alan, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com writes: I've been using org-mode for a few years. My agenda is cluttered with tasks that are weeks and even months past due. I am this close to declaring orgmode bankruptcy and starting from scratch, except my current setup works so well for other

Re: [O] Overall organization/setup for org mode: Projects and Tasks

2011-09-14 Thread Martyn Jago
Hi Russell Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com writes: [...] I hope that helps. Thanks. -- Russell Adamsrlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3

Re: [O] Overall organization/setup for org mode: Projects and Tasks

2011-09-14 Thread Christian Moe
I realize that other people's mileage may and does differ, but personally, I have long found the amazing functionality, customizability and hackability of Org-mode an astonishingly effective tool for PTO (Putting Things Off). :-) Christian On 9/14/11 8:59 PM, Olaf Dietsche wrote: Hi Alan,

Re: [O] Overall organization/setup for org mode: Projects and Tasks

2011-09-14 Thread Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
I'm in the same situation and (lack of) consistence is my main problem. One thing that helps me is to define in my custom agenda commands one command that only returns the STARTED tasks (Bernt Hansen's website has more info about this). In this way I can quickly go back to a task that I started

Re: [O] Overall organization/setup for org mode: Projects and Tasks

2011-09-14 Thread Russell Adams
(Off topic) I never thanked you for your (video) talk at HLUG, which essentially introduced me to org-mode proper (despite having already generated 'outline mode' formatted output to benefit from the outlining). Your talk blew me away, since I had literally no idea of the power of org-mode.