Hi Piotr, "Piotr Zielinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been recently experimenting with a different interpretation of > priorities: #B = tasks to do today, #C = tasks to do this week, #D = > all the rest, default. #A is reserved at the moment. One good thing > about this system is a clearer interpretation of priorities. When i first started using priorities, i was also leaned to misuse them as you describe, and my file ended up with top priorities everywhere. After a while, i discover it was better: 1. not to upgrade priorities too easily; 2. not trying to make them do an other job than their job. Let me explain myself a bit. The #1 advice seems obvious but it is hard to stick to it. One problem comes from Org-mode itself, because it makes it soooo easy to upgrade a priority that you often feel like upgrading one -- instead of completing the task under it :) Another problem comes from the fact that priority are dependant from each others. I think it's better to have something around 10%-[#A], 20%-[#B], and 30%-[#C], and changing the priority of a few tasks might disturb the balance. So here comes the #2 advice. Because i noticed that the reflex of upgrading too many [#B] to [#A] was just a way to make my Org files "say" something else (yes, my Org files *speak*), like "Do it next!" (which should be said by a TODO keyword) or "Do it today, you lazy bum!" (which could be said by the agenda...) So i try to keep a reasonable number of high-prioritized tasks and if i feel like i start to "upgrade" indecently, then i think twice about why i'm doing this. The thing is that i mainly use the priority system to have a useful display of the agenda view: (setq org-agenda-sorting-strategy '((agenda time-up priority-down) (todo priority-down) (tags priority-down))) (Okay, all of this is very nice but here is the truth: i got *tons* of chaotic tasks under misused priorities... but at least you get the way i would like to use them :) PS: just thinking: another way to use priorities could be to make lower tasks *dependant* (in they order of execution) from higher tasks. But i would prefer to make this dependance visible by using the display order, i.e. one task "after" another. Regards, -- Bastien _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode