I would love to see a weekly view/planner of some type!! For the week number, have you looked at the function calendar-print-iso-date
Its output includes the week number. ISO date: Day 5 of week 36 of 2005 - Chris Sacha Chua writes: >Hello, everyone! > >I haven't posted a planning reflection in a while. I thought I'd think >out loud again after rereading Covey's _First Things First_ and the >Merrills' _Life Matters._ This isn't _the_ way to use Planner. In >fact, I like thinking out loud about my planning style because I love >getting suggestions and advice from others. (This community is >amazing!) > >Today I experimented with dividing my tasks according to roles. >(http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/wiki/2005.09.08.php) It's a little >like planner-trunk.el, but I added the labels manually. This lets me >make sure I'm doing something useful in the roles I wanted to >concentrate on. I would like to eventually move to doing weekly >role-based planning, but I haven't quite figured out a nice way to do >a week plan. > >Here are my thoughts on my planning method so far: > >*** Roles > >Bunching my tasks according to roles makes it easier for me to >concentrate and prioritize. You can use planner-trunk to do that >too, or just rearrange your tasks and add blank lines between them. >Blank lines don't automatically get carried forward, though. > >*** Weekly planning > >The main reason I have a paper planner (8.5" x 11": weekly calendar + >todo list + notes) is have that week-at-a-glance view. I like iCal's >interface for planning tasks on a weekly basis, but I'm not entirely >sure how to map that onto Emacs, and I like my daily notes and my >day-view task list. > >So now I'm trying to figure out how to do exactly what was discussed >on the mailing list a week or two ago: good week planning. I don't >think I've ever come across an Emacs PIM that made me go aha, yes, >that's the way to do it, although howm's searching comes close and >org's outlining can sort of do the trick. Well, so can Planner with >new plan pages, I suppose. > >As I was trying to figure out how to do weekly planning, I realized I >didn't know a nice, easy Emacs function for finding the current week >number. Would anyone happen to have that handy? Alternatively, I could >use something like Week.2005.09.05 to signify the week starting on >2005.09.05 (depending on calendar-week-start-day). > >Maybe I could vertically divide the screen between a week view, with >tasks indicating my priorities, and a day view that shows the actual >goods. Then I can use planner-multi to schedule tasks from the week >view, and page forward and backward on the day view to check my load. > >With planner-cyclic and planner-deadline in place, that would actually >be better than my paper planner. =) > >I keep wondering whether we should do what everyone else does and >store a task once and only once. I don't know how to hack that so that >it will let me manipulate the tasks as plain text, though. I like >adding blank lines in the middle of things, or changing the sorting >order, or doing other weird stuff. So I guess duplicated text works >better for me. > >*** Undated tasks > >Undated tasks tend to get forgotten, but the >sacha/planner-schedule-next-task code I had in my config was a bit >annoying. When I caught myself unscheduling a task even before >properly reading it, I turned that off in my config. > >I think it's because I need to rearrange the tasks in my plan pages so >that the important ones come out first. I've already tweaked >sacha/planner-schedule-next-task to add a new task only when I've >finished all scheduled tasks on that page for that particular project, >but it seems that after I finish a sublist of tasks, I feel like >changing contexts. > >Maybe I can make a next-actions function that goes through a list of >projects and tells me what the next action is. When I have >unexpectedly free time, I can hit a shortcut to call that function, >and it will list the most important task (and perhaps the least >important as well? ;) ) in various pages. > >Hey, that would be a low-cost thing to implement. We already have the >pieces for that... > >*** Publishing > >One of the side-benefits of publishing your task list is that >occasionally people will go and do the tasks for you. For example, one >of my TODOs was to write the speaker at a recent convention. I liked >his talk and I wanted to learn more about personal coaching. Because >I've been busy these past few days (my mom's visiting, school's >starting, etc.), I kept putting it off... > >... until I got a note from him saying he searched for his name, found >my TODO, and decided to write to me. ^_^ Yay! > >-- >Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open source geekette >http://sacha.free.net.ph/ - PGP Key ID: 0xE7FDF77C >interests: emacs, gnu/linux, personal information management, juggling >sachac on irc.freenode.net#emacs . YM: sachachua83 > > >_______________________________________________ >emacs-wiki-discuss mailing list >emacs-wiki-discuss@nongnu.org >http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-wiki-discuss -- ================================ Chris McMahan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================ _______________________________________________ emacs-wiki-discuss mailing list emacs-wiki-discuss@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-wiki-discuss
