On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:36:51PM -0400, Jason F. McBrayer wrote: > > I thought I'd ask to see how other people who are using org for > Getting Things Done are handling projects and their relationship to > Next Actions. I've tried out several approaches, and while I can rule > out a few as no good, there are some with enough plusses and minuses > to keep me from being really happy with any of them. > > My first go was to have a top-level category for projects, with a > headline for each project under that. This worked for keeping track > of my list of projects, but it didn't give me any way to tell what > project a Next Action was associated with. > > My next attempt was to mix together projects and next actions, with > next actions coming hierarchically under the project they were > associated with. Projects have a tag unique to that project, but > distinct from the tags I am using for contexts (contexts start with @, > projects with nothing). This works, but the only way to get a list of > projects is to either look manually through the file, or get the list > of tags and ignore the ones that are contexts. > > I've tried two others: one is to make PROJECT an org-todo-keyword. > This makes it very easy to get a list of projects, with the negative > side effect that projects can show up in context lists if they are > tagged with a context so that their Next Actions can inherit it (e.g., > home improvements are all tagged @Home). This would work fine if I > didn't use tag inheritance, or was conscientious about not putting > contexts in projects. The other thing I've tried is to make "Project" > a tag. This obviously works only if one is not using tag > inheritance --- if you're not, then it's easy to get a list of > projects, but if you are, you'll get all your next actions, too. > > What are other people doing to keep track of their projects? Is > having projects listable all that important? >
At the moment my current project 'template' is: * Project name :proj:projectcontext: Project outcomes/visualization/rationale file:link to project reference files/directories file:link to project source files/directories *** [DONE|X|10|15|30|45] next action :Next Action context: ***** [DONE|10|15|30|45] sub action :Next Action context: Where :proj: means its a project description context. [DONE....] is the next action type. This is either DONE, X (untimed), 10... estimated next action time. Still its still very hard to manage lots and lots of projects. Tim. _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
