Re: [O] advice re organizing todo agenda items
Samuel Nick, I'm using priorities now, but there's only 3 of 'em. I would prefer finer control over them if I were to continue using priorities in this way. Q: My reading of the doc is that there's no way to change the number of priorities org supports: we're stuck with A/B/C. Right? Tags may work, but will require more updating than I would prefer. I come from the world of iPhone apps, and it's quite popular to have apps that let you cycle through a list of items - essentially a circular list. It's also a foundation of Forster's Autofocus task management methods. I'll take all this under advisement and see what I can think of. Thanks! Cheers. Fil On 30 March 2011 23:34, Samuel Wales samolog...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, use tags, then use a custom sort. Or, if you do not use priorities for local sorting, use priorities. -- Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749 Fax: 416/979-5265 Email: salus...@ryerson.ca http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/
Re: [O] advice re organizing todo agenda items
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Filippo A. Salustri salus...@ryerson.cawrote: Samuel Nick, I'm using priorities now, but there's only 3 of 'em. I would prefer finer control over them if I were to continue using priorities in this way. Q: My reading of the doc is that there's no way to change the number of priorities org supports: we're stuck with A/B/C. Right? I believe you can change the list of priorities with this setting (which you put in your Org file): #+PRIORITIES: Low M High Whatever ... PS: Sorry for the double reply. I usually subscribe to mailing lists which set its Reply-To to list. HTH, Steven
Re: [O] advice re organizing todo agenda items
On 03/31/2011 06:41 AM, Steven Haryanto wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Filippo A. Salustri salus...@ryerson.ca mailto:salus...@ryerson.ca wrote: Samuel Nick, I'm using priorities now, but there's only 3 of 'em. I would prefer finer control over them if I were to continue using priorities in this way. Q: My reading of the doc is that there's no way to change the number of priorities org supports: we're stuck with A/B/C. Right? I believe you can change the list of priorities with this setting (which you put in your Org file): #+PRIORITIES: Low M High Whatever ... PS: Sorry for the double reply. I usually subscribe to mailing lists which set its Reply-To to list. HTH, Steven You can change it globally through M-x customize-group RET org-priorities I use 1-9 for finer control, it looks like you could go crazy with it if you really wanted! Tracy
Re: [O] advice re organizing todo agenda items
I just found org-{lowest,highest,default}-priority before coming to
work; didn't have time to post about them. These do in fact let one
change the number of priorities.
I think, for now at least, I fall into the go crazy category. I
range my priorities from A to Z. Hopefully I'll find a less expansive
way of doing it.
Cheers.
Fil
On 31 March 2011 08:18, T Helms maxco...@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/31/2011 06:41 AM, Steven Haryanto wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Filippo A. Salustri salus...@ryerson.ca
wrote:
Samuel Nick,
I'm using priorities now, but there's only 3 of 'em. I would prefer
finer control over them if I were to continue using priorities in this
way.
Q: My reading of the doc is that there's no way to change the number
of priorities org supports: we're stuck with A/B/C. Right?
I believe you can change the list of priorities with this setting (which you
put in your Org file):
#+PRIORITIES: Low M High Whatever ...
PS: Sorry for the double reply. I usually subscribe to mailing lists which
set its Reply-To to list.
HTH,
Steven
You can change it globally through M-x customize-group RET org-priorities
I use 1-9 for finer control, it looks like you could go crazy with it if you
really wanted!
Tracy
--
Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ryerson University
350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON
M5B 2K3, Canada
Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749
Fax: 416/979-5265
Email: salus...@ryerson.ca
http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/
[O] advice re organizing todo agenda items
Hi, I'm hoping someone can offer some advice. In my agenda is a todo list. Let's say there's 10 things in the list. What I'd like to do is rotate the items, i.e. 1. I work on the first item for a while. 2. When I'm done for now, I'd like to push it down to the bottom of the list. 3. Work on the next item (which is now at the top). 4. Wash, rinse, repeat. If the items were all in 1 file, I could just refile an item to push it to the bottom of the file or section. The problem is that they're not in just 1 file. At the moment, I'm subverting effort to fill that role. By changing the effort, I can move things around in the list. But it's (a) a subversion of effort and (b) just generally kludgy. Anyone got any ideas? Cheers. Fil -- Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749 Fax: 416/979-5265 Email: salus...@ryerson.ca http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/
Re: [O] advice re organizing todo agenda items
Filippo A. Salustri salus...@ryerson.ca wrote: Hi, I'm hoping someone can offer some advice. In my agenda is a todo list. Let's say there's 10 things in the list. What I'd like to do is rotate the items, i.e. 1. I work on the first item for a while. 2. When I'm done for now, I'd like to push it down to the bottom of the list. 3. Work on the next item (which is now at the top). 4. Wash, rinse, repeat. If the items were all in 1 file, I could just refile an item to push it to the bottom of the file or section. The problem is that they're not in just 1 file. At the moment, I'm subverting effort to fill that role. By changing the effort, I can move things around in the list. But it's (a) a subversion of effort and (b) just generally kludgy. Anyone got any ideas? Priorities perhaps - you can change the priority of an item in the agenda with + or - and refresh the agenda with `g'. When you are done with the item for the time being, change its priority back to default or lower and press `r'. When you are done, you can change the priorities back to default with a bulk action using the function org-agenda-priority [fn:1]. You'll probably need to adjust the value of org-agenda-sorting-strategy so that priorities take precedence. This won't push the tasks down the stack but it will keep the A task at the top and the C tasks at the bottom. The ones at default will not be marked, so they are easy to spot. Is that good enough? Nick Footnotes: [fn:1] Resetting the priorities to default involves marking all the tasks with priority cookies, pressing `B' to invoke the bulk action, then `f' for a function, then typing `org-agenda-priority' for the function and then pressing SPC for each marked task. All of this is much easier to do than to describe, except for the typing of the function. I don't know if this is possible already, but if not, consider it a feature request: instead of typing the name of the function, press the key that is bound to the function in the agenda (`,' for the case of org-agenda-priority). It should be possible to find the function bound to the key and invoke it as if its name was typed. How does that sound?
