Hi Folks,
I thought I'd throw in my 2c on the topic. I work on org-toodledo which
syncs TODO items with Toodledo.com. On first sync, it creates adds a
"ToodledID" property to track the ID assigned by the server.
In my use case, that majority of TODO items have *no* other properties.
As such, many items have a PROPERTIES drawer with just the one entry.
What I see is visual clutter. Many of my TODO items are also very small
-- often no body at all. So the only thing beneath the item is the
property drawer plus other "properties" like DEADLINE/SCHEDULED/CLOSED.
When trying to browse my todo list, it gets a little painful when
every other line is ":PROPERTIES:...", or DEADLINE, etc.
I rarely (never?) edit any of these properties directly manually. I
either modify them via agenda mode, keys (C-c C-s), or via column view
that pulls out interesting properties that I like to edit.
So for me, I want the entire *drawer* to disappear, as well as
SCHEDULED/DEADLINE and CLOSED lines.
I've personally thought there should be an extra step in the visibility
cycling:
<TAB>
-> FOLDED -> CHILDREN -> SUBTREE -> PROPERTIES
S-<TAB>
-> OVERVIEW -> CONTENTS -> SHOW ALL (minus PROPS) -> PROPERTIES
...cj
On 8/1/12 9:19 PM, Torsten Wagner wrote:
Hey Bastien,
thanks for keeping the topic up. Well, I guess people who are dealing
with import/export from third-party programs might have an idea how to
use this functionality (and can tell us how useful this would be). I
can try to contact the authors of mobileorg for iphone and android as
well as some other authors of sync-tools (if they are not already
contributing to this discussion). Lets see what is there opinion.
All the best
Torsten
On 1 August 2012 22:29, Bastien <b...@gnu.org> wrote:
Hi Thorsten,
thanks for the detailed example. As I said, I tend to be conversative
about such topics. Not because I'm already too old, but because this is
often not worth the time-to-implement/complexity-in-code. So I'm still
open to read a very compelling case where "tech" properties need to be
hidden...
Of course, "need" is subjective -- let's say if you manage to have at
least 3 friends complaining about tech properties being visible when
unfolding a drawer, I'm all ears :)
--
Bastien
