Me, too, referring to your introduction, which I've quoted below. Lately, I've resorted to writing tasks down on a scrap of paper. I don't even have time to enter tasks into Planner.
My job has become increasingly service oriented. I'm supposed to be designing product and developing processes and procedures. But the amount of support I need to provide for legacy product (there's no production engineering here) means I get people coming in my office (or phone calls or email) to ask about a potential 13 year's worth of stuff I've produced. Even the interruptions that interrupt the interruptions are interrupted! Is this company crazy or what? I'd walk, but I have a house and family to feed. (The house eats paint and caulk....) Sorry about that. What it boils down to is that I've got lots of projects on the backburner and even some partly in a mixing bowl and several with bookmarks in the cookbooks (to stretch the analogy.) I'm afraid that if I axed these from the day pages, I'd forget about them. The idea of a page devoted to Future work is wonderful. And having a page of Closed stuff can serve as a morale boost for those days when I feel hopeless. I know, try M-x doctor. :) -- Raymond Zeitler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:27:28 +1100 From: Trent Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [emacs-wiki-discuss] 3-pages instead of day pages To: emacs-wiki-discuss@nongnu.org I've been reflecting on how I use planner this week; here's my synopsis. http://twb.ath.cx/notes/on-planner.pdf http://twb.ath.cx/~twb/doc/muse/HTML/on-planner.html The transcript follows for easy quoting in replies. -------------- next part -------------- #title On Planner #subtitle How I use Emacs' Planner-Mode to manage tasks. * Introduction Using day pages just wasn't working for me. I never scheduled anything in advance, so all the open tasks just sat on the present day page. Each day, any separation of the tasks into groups would be lost as all the unfinished tasks were brought forward. And the fact that a new file was being created each day and about forty lines being deleted from one file and added to another made using version control to manage the archive everything a real pain in the arse. Lastly, the huge numbers of day pages felt messy and the average of of one completed item per page was depressing. [snip] _______________________________________________ emacs-wiki-discuss mailing list emacs-wiki-discuss@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-wiki-discuss
