David O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been in my new "simple GTD" system for about a week, and it feels > very comfortable. Thanks again to Carsten and to the org-mode > community. > > Now I see what was wrong with my previous uses of org-mode. I never > used any keywords other than TODO and DONE. This didn't give enough > information, so it meant that every task I might possibly ever do had > a TODO item. Because of the absurd number of TODO's I never used the > agenda feature much, and therefore didn't schedule many things; I > relied on my cell-phone for scheduling appointments, and never set > deadlines in my personal coding projects. > > Now I am scheduling more things, and using the agenda views > regularly. > > But I am still having one problem. Right now I have a section in my > One Big Orgfile that looks like this: > >> * Books >> ** TODO Read "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" >> *** DONE Find out about Wittgenstein's notation >> *** NEXT Chapter 5 >> *** TODO Chapter 6 >> *** TODO Chapter 7 >> *** TODO Review entire book >> *** MAYBE [[http://s22318.tsbvi.edu/mathproject/appB-sec1.asp][Spoken >> mathematics]] >> ** TODO Read "The Analysis of Mind" >> *** NEXT Chapter 1 > > This gives in the agenda: > > dto: Scheduled: NEXT Chapter 5 > dto: Scheduled: NEXT Chapter 1 > > Without any indication which book the chapters are from. Can I fix > this with properties or tags or categories or something?
I'm less than a week into my shiny new GTD setup. I don't normally schedule tasks that don't need to be scheduled anymore. I spend more time "doing stuff" than rescheduling things. I have a PROJECT and PROJDONE task which I use only for project headlines - and the PROJECT task defines what is a project. I schedule some of the important PROJECT tasks (not their subtasks) just to keep them on my radar in the daily agenda view. My NEXT tag view for @home is @home/NEXT|PROJECT so my view is something like this: todo: .PROJECT Learn Ruby on Rails - Agile Development on Rails Depot Application tutorial todo: ...NEXT Chapter 6 :sub60: which shows the book title. You can also use follow mode in the agenda if you reveal the parent headings with org-show-hierarchy-above t. I don't know of a way to see it directly in the agenda if you only display the NEXT task. HTH, Bernt _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
