Bastien writes: > Hi Christopher, > > Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> writes: > >> I wonder if we had a property that was basically sorting on very large >> numbers? When you add something to the agenda and there aren't any >> sorted items, it creates a property with some median-ish very large >> number. As you move things up and down on the agenda it sorts in random >> ranges between the chunks of huge number space per item. This would be >> a goofy but workable solution? > > I don't know -- it's hard to make sure we speak about the same things > when brainstorming like this. Where would you store the property you > are talking to (for example)? Sorry for the non-romantic question :)
Just store the property on the item itself, like: #+BEGIN_SRC org * My Tasklist ** TODO This task second :PROPERTIES: :Sorting: 5029662198291 :END: ** TODO This task last :PROPERTIES: :Sorting: 4362296268052 :END: * Another tasklist ** TODO This task first :PROPERTIES: :Sorting: 6495792999082 :END: #+END_SRC in theory, if you have numbers large enough, you should be able to usually find something that's above or in-between to generate sorting between things. So if we wanted to move the last task to the second task, and we're on our agenda and we see the following tasks: sometask Sched.4x: TODO This task first sometask Sched.4x: TODO This task second sometask Sched.4x: TODO This task last and we ask to move third up between second and first, it'll just pick a new random number between that range, like: random.randrange(5029662198291, 6495792999082) so if we got 6417343542884 back, we would set that as the sorting property for the task named "This task last" (which would then no longer be last, it would be second! ;))
