On 07/11/2007, Adam Spiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:59:35PM +0100, Tim O'Callaghan wrote: > > On 07/11/2007, Adam Spiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:23:12PM +0100, Tim O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > It would seem to me that this is exactly what tags does. > > > > You could move everything down a level and use tag inheritance: > > > > * personal stuff :personal: > > > > * work stuff :work: > > > > > > I could, but this would mean that each file would have a single > > > top-level entry, and the entire contents would be indented an extra > > > level, which I fear is a rather unattractive solution! > > > > It's the technique i've been using, and yes, it is unattractive. > > > > When i thought of tags, it was not explicitly for GTD context > > specifier, it was also for adding searchable metadata to a todo node. > > Same here. I used tags for a lot more than GTD contexts, e.g. also > for a rough ETC and to group them by areas of responsibility. > (N.B. Sometimes a task can be motivated by multiple areas of > responsibility, so subheadings aren't good enough.) > > > How about adding the context to the tag table with a prefix character, say > > #? > > I don't follow you, sorry. Perhaps I should state explicitly that my > need to distinguish between 'work' and 'personal' categories has > nothing to do with my use of GTD contexts. I can (and do very often) > work from home, and I also occasionally(!) do personal tasks from the > office. >
My point with the taxonomy is that Categories especially 'personal' and 'work' can be thought of as Meta Contexts (i wanted to say Meta-TAGS, but that might get confusing). So contexts that are arbitrary but are used to group many actual physical contexts (TAGS) of todo nodes. The '#' was the thought that if you treat Categories as a type of tag, then you could add them to the tag search mechanism. To avoid collision, such as work - the physical context and work, the category, prefix them with a meta-character such as # which cannot normally be in a tag name. So a categorised tag-todo search might be: "#work+work+email/TODO" Tim. _______________________________________________ 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
