Re: [Orgmode] Another GTD question.

[Christopher Kuettner]

- A lot of the code handling TODOs was written early when there were
  no plain lists.  That code often explicitly assumes that TODO is preceded
  by the beginning of a line and a few stars.  Several regular expressions
  that are used all over the place implicitly make this assumption.  


In outline mode there is the possibility to replace the stars with an 
reg-expression.  That means you can replace the star as the 
headline-indicator.  Maybe you can take some code from outline-mode.




- To make TODO in plain list items fully useful, I'd have to be able to
  apply tags to them.  However, other than headlines, the first line of a
  plain list item does not have a defined end, it can be filled and
  wrapped - so where would a good place be, where should TAGS be stored?
  Any good proposals?


maybe you can rise the importance of org-tags-column like in "if a ":" 
is here, than this is a tag.


Aside from that...

What is the basic design model for org-mode?  What is org supposed to 
be?  Where it is headed? I thought I  got an outliner with 
dates-capabilities.  No it's almost a full fledged publishing platform...


I think you did a terrific job so far.  Maybe you have to make some 
fundamental decisions here...


Regards,
Christopher



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RE: [Orgmode] Another GTD question.

[Eddward DeVilla]

On 10/21/06, Christopher Kuettner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Aside from that...

What is the basic design model for org-mode?  What is org supposed to
be?  Where it is headed? I thought I  got an outliner with
dates-capabilities.  No it's almost a full fledged publishing platform...

I think you did a terrific job so far.  Maybe you have to make some
fundamental decisions here...


Those are some interesting questions.  I certainly can't answer any of
them, but I don't know one aspect of Org that I hope is maintained.
It's really flexible.  Kind of like perl.  It has a lot of little
nifty features that you can use to manage and organize information (to
tasks, or whatever) and use can use any subset you want.  You can
learn it incrementally.  (...as I have.  It sound popular but I
haven't even touched the publishing...)  None of the features really
require the use of any other feature except maybe agenda and agenda is
just a flexible interface for gathering the information marked and
managed by the other features.  (Dates, tags, Todo state...)  Yet all
of the features work well together.  There's more that one way to do
most things.

I don't really understand GTD, elisp or project management that I
would try to guess a good direction for Org-mode, but I do hope it is
able to maintain a design where you can pick and choose the features
and assemble them as they suit you instead of trying to impose a
framework or style.

And yes, Carsten and company of done an excellent job.  For all I've
pestered him and the list, I don't say that enough.  I just picked
org-mode because I was looking for a replacement an orphaned outliner
that I depended on.  Org turned out to be better in many ways and has
since surpassed it in all ways.  It's changed how I manage list,
projects, todo and information in general.  I'm actually excited to
see how it will grow.  You've done great.


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