Aloha all,
Adam Porter <a...@alphapapa.net> writes:
On 3/29/24 04:48, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
Also, we may consider re-using inlinetask style for TODO:
entries.
Rather than
#+begin_center
TODO: Even better, find a volunteer to maintain this
information!
#+end_center
We can do
**************************** TODO Even better, ...
That is a lot of asterisks, and I can't remember if inline
tasks are
enabled by default. :) But in general, sure, I've no
objection. I
think that we should have some standard way to encode tasks
within Worg
documents, regardless of what it is.
Yeah. And... we do.
https://orgmode.org/worg/worg-editing.html#orgce51883
Just a normal heading with TODO keyword.
I'm not sure that page really covers the question of how to
present tasks about
the document within the same document.
Using a normal heading for a task would "commandeer" the
structure of the
document, which I think is a real problem.
ISTM that there are a few potential solutions:
a. Using inline tasks. Although not enabled by default, they
seem to
solve the problem pretty well.
b. Using commented lines, i.e.
# TODO: Improve this information.
Potentially we could even comment Org syntax within the file,
like:
# * TODO Improve this information :research_needed:
Which encodes a normal Org heading but as a commented line,
so it
wouldn't affect the structure of the document itself. Of
course,
that would not appear in the exported content, which is
probably not
what we want; but those headings could still be collected,
e.g. by
something like magit-todos.
c. Keeping tasks in a separate file. We do already have the
/todo.org
file, so maybe this is what we should standardize on, i.e.
never
putting tasks in the documents themselves but only in this
file.
Here's another potential solution that I find useful.
d. Keeping tasks under a heading held back from export.
I have a capture template that saves tasks about the document
under a * Tasks :no-export: heading. To keep the agenda sane, I
don't add the file. Instead, I show buffer local tasks with
org-sidebar.
hth,
Tom
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