"Bob Newell" <bobnew...@bobnewell.net> writes: >> That's a terrible terrible idea to pollute agenda view with tasks that >> do not absolutely need to be done on a given day. Such agenda is useless >> in the long run. > > A terrific insight. While I think I mostly use orgmode effectively this is a > mistake I'm clearly making. At the top of my agenda is always a list of > things that are tagged IN PROGRESS or WAITING or just TODO, with sometimes > something ridiculous like 'Sched.657x'.
Sched.657x is a clear indication that such task is not urgent (to say the least). You may as well move it to some kind of "someday" list - it is not happening anyway. WAITING should be out of sight most of the time, or you should call it "STARING at" ;) I personally like to schedule WAITING tasks to follow up on them (that's when I am waiting for someone else) or use spaced repetition system to remind about a task periodically. If you have something IN PROGRESS but do not actually work on it, it is really on hold and should be shelved out of sight. For example, into some kind of weekly review. > What I should do is (at minimum) move those things elsewhere and review them > every so often (maybe a daily 5 minute review) and then schedule a specific > 'next step'activity, if appropriate, for the next day or maybe several days. Weekly is a good timing. See https://www.benkuhn.net/weekly/ For daily "reviews", I personally spend 5-10 minutes to figure out whether the planned tasks are doable today or not (e.g. emergency or bad weather) and whether to reschedule them or put on hold. The agenda should have just enough tasks to finish during the day. If there are more, you cannot finish them and may feel bad at the end of the day. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode maintainer, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
