In the last year, I tried a couple of times to adopt the GTD planning style. Until now, I was not successful, mainly due to my own inability to keep the records up to date. Two weeks ago I gave another try and, as before, I felt the initial relief that comes with getting rid of the necessity to keep everything in mind. My org-mode setup is very close to what Carsten described in Another GTD Question thread [1]: tags for contexts, todo keywords for task state, outlines for pretty everything else. Scheduling and deadlines make the standard agenda view an amazing tool. Someday/Maybe lists simply have no todo state. I have yet to explore the ways of dealing with projects.
There are, however, some things I might want to do, but either don't know how or still not sure if I should. * WAITING states in agenda I really love the standard agenda view, but the list of currently open todo items includes all unfinished entries, including waiting tasks. To exclude them, I can define a custom agenda, but I would prefer to customize the standard view, though, to replace the huge "open todo items" list with a slightly more compact list of selected todo-states. Is there a way to do so? How do you prefer to see your waiting items -- in the same list with other todos or in a separate list? * Inherited tags in agenda The inherited tags are not shown in the agenda. It would be OK if I were careful enough to tag all new entries. Now, as soon as I see an untagged item in the agenda, I am tempted to check if it belongs to a tagged upper level or I have simply forgotten to tag it. Is it possible to show the inherited tags in the agenda? * Projects How do you manage your projects? Are they in separate file(s)? If you use a separate file for every project, how do you make sure you don't forget any -- put links somewhere or add them to the list of agenda files or use the PigPog method [2] or what? * Review What is the best review technique? Using agenda or simply opening all files and re-reading them? [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/715 [2] http://pigpog.com/node/1031 -- With best regards, Dmitri Minaev Russian history blog: http://minaev.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
