David Masterson <dsmaster...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm not sure I understand 'sequence' and 'type' in org-todo-keywords. > In particular, I can only think of the following simple sequence as > being possible in org-todo-keywords: > > TODO -> IN-PROCESS -> DONE > > If I want to add in (say) WAITING, the graph (represented as a table) > becomes: > > i\o | TODO | IN-P | WAIT | DONE > TODO | N | Y | N | N > IN-P | N | N | Y | Y > WAIT | N | Y | N | N > DONE | N | N | N | N
The main purpose of the keyword sequences is working on tasks in steps. When a keyword is a part of sequence, you can just use S-<right> S-<left> to progress the task. For example: NEXT -> DOING -> REVIEW -> DONE Such sequence is only making sense when everything goes "as usual" with a task and you do not want to think about which keyword to assign. The transition IN-PROGRESS -> WAIT is something you have to decide consciously. Org cannot just read you mind and change IN-PROGRESS to WAIT. You will have set such transition manually. For your table, you can try something like #+TODO: WAIT IN-PROCESS #+TODO: TODO IN-PROCESS | DONE Note, however, that moving S-<left> will be ambiguous. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
