Bernt, I think your system (and your writing about it) is fantastic and it has inspired me to develop mine.
On 17 November 2011 23:10, Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> wrote: > Gez <sule...@gmail.com> writes: > I almost exclusively use capture to quickly file away things I don't > want to forget. This goes to my refile.org as a level 1 heading and > isn't attached to anything yet. I was resisting doing that because I have different todo's for different files, but - it just occured to me - what's to stop me listing all of the possible todo's at the top of a refile org file? I might just do that. > All of my tasks that need to be refiled show up on my block agenda view > in the second section - immediately under today's agenda view.<snip> > I'm using this block agenda view regularly during the day and the tasks > to be refiled are constantly 'in my face' until I do something with > them. Yes, it would work if I added them to my block agenda. > I refile these items mostly from the agenda - I tend to get 2 or 3 of > them that are going to the same target so I'll mark them with 'm' and > refile with 'B r'. My refile setup uses IDO completion for refile > targets and I find this works very well. If I'm refiling to file x.org > under '* Tasks' I'll do something like C-c C-w x.org C-SPC tasks RET The > order of entering x.org/tasks doesn't matter - IDO is limiting the > targets to the entered data so I can match part of what is left in the > list. It's because of reading your set-up that I use IDO now. I't's amazing. Perhaps I need more practise in using it - cleverly selecting what I enter - since I end up having to type the whole file name including .org quite often. As good practise, I should probably consistently start with the headline, since my filenames are not unique enough (they match the equivalent archive file and also other headlines). > I've also set up refiling to remove DONE tasks from the list of > available completion targets. This helps prevent mistakes where you > refile to an already done tree (or if you have repeating separate tasks > with the same name only the open ones show up as refile targets.) I've had your page open for a while in firefox, gradually re-reading, working through and modifying my setup. I was going to tackle some clock-related stuff next, but now I think removing DONE tasks from the list of targets might be the next thing I add. >Refiling the thing to the right place isn't > important right now so I put that off. Constantly having to move things > to the right place as you capture them will be too slow IMHO. I do know what you mean. I think I've erroneously feared that if I insert a reminder out of context, I need to be more verbose than I would otherwise, or I will forget later what it means, but I can imagine that if I frequently check the items to refile, I probably won't forget. > Hope that helps, Very much indeed. Thank you. Geraldine
