I have been giving some thought as to what i need planner to do to
support my use of the GTD methodology, and last night i started to
implement it. Below is my very rough start at planner-gtd.el which
will hopefully be a useful to some in the planner community, at least
as an example of the flexibility of the system.
Caveat Downloador: As i said it is rough and not nearly complete. If
it eats all your tasks (as it nearly did for me...) quickly make a new
task to do a restore from you backups; or if you don't have one make a
task to implement one soon.
Please send me you comments/criticisms/bug reports
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;;; planner-gtd.el --- GTD support for planner mode.
;;; Copyright (C) 2005 -- Mark Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
;; Author: Mark Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
;; Created: 2005-11-06
;; Time-stamp: <2005-11-07 18:53:55 damned>
;; Keywords: planner
;; Version:
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;;;
;;; Commentary:
;;;
;;
;; This file attempts to make planner mode more in tune with the style
;; of planning as laid out by David Allen in 'Getting Things Done'
;;
;; To do this it:
;; * removes the use of day pages
;; * promotes the use of plan pages for a) Projects and b) contexts
;; * promotes the use of a single page for all next actions
;; sub-divided by contexts
;; * TODO: promotes the use of remember mode for 'collection'
;; * TODO: Provides 'tickler' file functionality.
;;
;;;
;;; Requirements
;;;
(require 'cl)
(require 'planner)
(require 'planner-multi)
(require 'planner-trunk)
;;;
;;; Planner GTD defintions
;;;
;; GTD doesn't use 'day pages'. The calendar should be used for
;; things that MUST happen on a particular day.
(setq planner-use-day-pages nil)
;;
;; Need to redefine planner-today to use the variable
;; *planner-welcome-page*
;; This page is intended to be the 'next action' list.x
(defvar *planner-welcome-page* "NextActions")
(defun planner-today ()
"Return the file of the current date; or the 'main page' if day
pages are not used."
(if planner-use-day-pages
(or planner-timewarp-date
(planner-date-to-filename
(decode-time (current-time))))
*planner-welcome-page*))
;;
;; set the planner-trunk-rule-list to recognize contexts
;;
(defvar *planner-gtd-context-regexp* "@.*")
(defvar *planner-gtd-context-list* '("@home" "@web" "@laptop" "@shopping"))
(setq planner-trunk-rule-list
`((,*planner-welcome-page*
nil
,(mapcar #'(lambda (c) (list c c)) *planner-gtd-context-list*))))
(defvar *planner-gtd-default-context* nil)
;;
;; Ensure that every task when created is in the NextActions page
;;
(setq planner-multi-copy-tasks-to-page *planner-welcome-page*)
(defun planner-gtd-read-name (file-alist prompt initial)
"Call planner-multi-read-name to read the projects, repeat for the
contexts, concatenate these together with the *PLANNER-WELCOME-PAGE*."
(let ((plan-pages (remove-if
#'(lambda (a) (or
(string-match "@.*" (car a))
(string=
*planner-welcome-page*
(car a))))
file-alist))
(context-pages (remove-if-not
#'(lambda (a) (string-match "@.*" (car a)))
file-alist)))
(let ((plans
(planner-multi-split
(planner-multi-read-name plan-pages prompt initial)))
(contexts
(planner-multi-split
(planner-multi-read-name context-pages "Contexts:" nil))))
(mapconcat 'identity (append contexts plans) planner-multi-separator))))
(setq planner-read-name-function #'planner-gtd-read-name)
;; Make sure trunk-ing happens
(add-hook 'planner-create-task-hook #'planner-trunk-tasks)
;; Move completed tasks to another page
(defvar *planner-gtd-completed-tasks-page* "CompletedTasks")
(defun planner-gtd-mark-task-hook (old-status new-status)
(when (or (string= new-status "C")
(string= new-status "X"))
(let* ((info (planner-current-task-info))
(links (planner-multi-task-link-as-list info))
(new-links
(append
(list *planner-gtd-completed-tasks-page*)
(remove-if #'(lambda (l) (or (string= *planner-welcome-page*
(planner-link-base l))
(string-match "@.*"
(planner-link-base l))))
links))))
(planner-multi-replan-task (planner-multi-make-link new-links)))
(planner-trunk-tasks)))
;;; commented out because it doesn't work correctly yet!
;;; ;; planner-multi-remove-task-from-pool is added by loading planner-multi
;;; (remove-hook 'planner-mark-task-hook 'planner-multi-remove-task-from-pool)
;;; ;; add our hook instead.
;;; (add-hook 'planner-mark-task-hook 'planner-gtd-mark-task-hook)
(provide 'planner-gtd)
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