Hi Michael On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Michael Heinrich <mich...@haas-heinrich.de> wrote: > I came from planner-mode and use kind of GTD also in org-mode. One > thing I still miss in org-mode is the flexibility of moving tasks up and > down on the today page.
Two years ago I wrote down my thoughts about using Org priorities [#A] etc. for reordering tasks, please read here: "manually move tasks in list of agenda tags-todo" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode//2011-07/msg00003.html In the meantime I abandon tags and use Org priorities [#A] less often and only for a detail view within a subtree or within a file, together with the very convenient agenda restriction (keys "<" for buffer and "< <" for subtree) and together with _one single_ and very simple custom agenda for all prioritized todo groups: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp ("r" "todo with Org prio restricted to file/subtree (“tags-todo”)" ((tags-todo "PRIORITY>=\"A\"" ((org-agenda-files nil))))) #+END_SRC On top of this and more important is a "focus" file focus.org (not part of the org-agenda-files) for the big picture with all items ordered by priority (in a common sense, not Org priority [#A] etc.): ,-------- focus.org (most important first): ; * TODO global task 2 [[item:lfYD9-3HDmH]] ; * TODO global task 1 [[item:MR3hG-xdQMy]] ; * project x [[item:KjgaR-ulAfi]] ; * TODO project x task 2 [[item:CKdf1-lCbEF]] ; * TODO project x task 1 [[item:g7Sda-X7HP5]] ; * TODO project y [[tree:qpuPE-vZE0F]] ; * TODO global task 3 [[item::piKci-VaB1A]] ; ; #+LINK: item id: ; #+LINK: tree id: '-------- It contains only one-liners with a short description and a link to items or subtrees for the details. Note the "tree:" link for project y: In comparison to the the "item:" links it means that following the link and restrict to subtree for my above custom agenda "r" shows the details, ordered by Org priorities [#A] etc. The purpose of this is to keep focus.org small and clear. One could of course also have e. g. project y link to another focus file focus_project_y.org to show and order the tasks within project y there. David Allen's GTD suggests 6 levels of focus: 50k feet, 40k feet etc. to ground level... Such a focus.org lets one change ordering and grouping very fast thanks to the power of Org structure editing. The only other agenda view that I use now is of type "agenda" and contains only items that can not be done before and/or after a given date. Todos that can be done any time and that I already scheduled (in a sense without date, not Org "SCHEDULED:") and prioritized I access through focus.org. Michael
