Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-23 Thread Julian Burgos
Hi Martin, I think that you should be using tags for this. For example: * Project XYZ :projectxyz:J.Smith: ** TODO Write Text ** WAIT Feedback on Text ** TODO check feedback ** TODO send to original author ** WAIT for Feedback In this case you are adding a tag with the project name and ano

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-23 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi M, > it is not about programming and it is not about plain text files, but > MS Office (Word) files.. > > Dropbox is not an option, maybe a document management system (DMS) > with versioning, but it is not in place yet. And even if there is, > how could I then track my workflow with Emacs? I

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
M writes: > I hope it is clear what I mean, there are a lot of small steps and each time > creating a new task takes much time and I have to copy the name of the > "project" again and again... > > Maybe it would be better to add all the notes about the progress as notes in > the Logbook and chang

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Thomas S. Dye
M writes: > Hi Thomas, > > thanks for your reply! > > Sure I know Bernt Hansen's web page and I'm already using his configuration > for my system. (I'm still learning Emacs and org-mode, so it was easier to > start with an existing setup). > > I already know and use the capture and refile feature

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread M
Hi Thomas, thanks for your reply! Sure I know Bernt Hansen's web page and I'm already using his configuration for my system. (I'm still learning Emacs and org-mode, so it was easier to start with an existing setup). I already know and use the capture and refile feature, my problem is that I have

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
"Nicolas Richard" writes: > I use one trick which might be of interest to some people : when I have > a dropbox folder with text (in my case, these are .tex and related > files) files that will be worked on collaboratively, I first follow > these steps in the directory : > > dropbox exclude add .

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
M writes: > it is not about programming and it is not about plain text files, but MS > Office (Word) files.. > > Dropbox is not an option, maybe a document management system (DMS) with > versioning, but it is not in place yet. > And even if there is, how could I then track my workflow with Emacs

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread M
with Emacs? Kind regards Martin > Von: Thorsten Jolitz > Datum: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:14:42 +0100 > An: > Betreff: Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing > their status/ person > > M writes: > > Hi, > >> At the moment th

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Nicolas Richard
Thorsten Jolitz writes: > If you/your fellow workers don't use GIT or another VCS, there is still > dropbox - put your project text files in your dropbox folder and share > them with other, there are automatic backups of older versions by > Dropbox. I use one trick which might be of interest to

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha M, M writes: > Hi, > > I'm working with org-mode to document my work and to keep track of tasks and > projects. > > At the moment there are many little projects where I > > * get a text from someone (or write it myself) > * have to read and edit it > * send it oer email to 1 or 2 other col

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
M writes: Hi, > At the moment there are many little projects where I > > * get a text from someone (or write it myself) > * have to read and edit it > * send it oer email to 1 or 2 other colleagues which have to read / edit it > * get it back and check the changes > * maybe send the text again

[O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

2013-01-22 Thread M
Hi, I'm working with org-mode to document my work and to keep track of tasks and projects. At the moment there are many little projects where I * get a text from someone (or write it myself) * have to read and edit it * send it oer email to 1 or 2 other colleagues which have to read / edit it *