Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-21 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Bastien writes: > Hi Christopher, > > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > >> Just store the property on the item itself > > But this solution is task-based, not agenda-based. > > The "Sorting" property you describe would be useful in one > agenda and not in one other -- so this does not really fit

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-18 Thread Daniel Clemente
> > You can now use M- and M- to move agenda lines around. > This is for quick use only. It is not persistent and the agenda > will be reordered on next refresh. > That's nice, thanks.

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-18 Thread Bastien
Hi Daniel, You can now use M- and M- to move agenda lines around. This is for quick use only. It is not persistent and the agenda will be reordered on next refresh. -- Bastien

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-17 Thread Daniel Clemente
> > ** TODO This task second >:PROPERTIES: >:Sorting: 5029662198291 >:END: > As others said, this should be view-based, because the order in one agenda can be different to the order in other agenda. Each agenda view has some identifier (e.g. the letter you use to open it: "a"

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-16 Thread Bastien
Hi Christopher, Christopher Allan Webber writes: > Just store the property on the item itself But this solution is task-based, not agenda-based. The "Sorting" property you describe would be useful in one agenda and not in one other -- so this does not really fit for the OP use-case I guess. -

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-16 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Bastien writes: > Hi Christopher, > > Christopher Allan Webber 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 >> numbe

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-11 Thread Michael Brand
Hi Michael On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Michael Heinrich 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 pr

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-11 Thread Daniel Bausch
Hi, Bastien writes: >> How do you decide what to do next? > > I bind `=' to a custom agenda command that will find out what to do > next depending on the Emacs context. > > For example, when reading emails, C-c a = will find next emails to > process; when in *.el C-c a = will find next Emacs/Or

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-11 Thread Bastien
Bastien writes: > For example, when reading emails, C-c a = will find next emails to > process PS: I use Gnus and the lovely "dormant" mark '?' so that I can get the impression I don't have many emails. Of course, many dormant emails (or blog-entries from gwene.org) are bound to a task. -- B

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-11 Thread Bastien
Hi Daniel, Daniel Bausch writes: > Just do not touch the IDs of items not currently visible or add the name > of the agenda to which this applies and have an AGENDA_BEFORE per agenda. Mhh... looks like overengineering to me. >> I think we should start thinking from the existing functionalities

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-11 Thread Daniel Bausch
Hi Bastien, Am 11.04.2013 09:04, schrieb Bastien: > Hi Daniel, > > Daniel Bausch writes: > >> I have got another idea: all we need for sorting (from a technical POV) >> is a partial order. Why not store exactly that as a property? Assume >> every TODO entry has an ID (if it has none and it is

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-11 Thread Bastien
Hi Daniel, Daniel Bausch writes: > I have got another idea: all we need for sorting (from a technical POV) > is a partial order. Why not store exactly that as a property? Assume > every TODO entry has an ID (if it has none and it is required to store > the order, just create one automatically)

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-10 Thread Daniel Bausch
Hi, Am 11.04.2013 01:32, schrieb Bastien: > Hi Christopher, > > Christopher Allan Webber 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 me

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-10 Thread Bastien
Hi Christopher, Christopher Allan Webber 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 a

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-10 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Bastien writes: > "John Wiegley" writes: > >> You'll have to change the positions of the items within the Org file itself. >> It would be great if there was a single key to do this and then very quickly >> update the agenda view. > > This is tempting in imagination but I think the real implementa

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-10 Thread Bastien
"John Wiegley" writes: > You'll have to change the positions of the items within the Org file itself. > It would be great if there was a single key to do this and then very quickly > update the agenda view. This is tempting in imagination but I think the real implementation would be limited and

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-10 Thread Samuel Wales
Yes, it is possible. I use priorities locally. That is, they sort in the outline and do not have global semantics. Therefore, they have no meaning in the agenda. Perhaps someday I will figure out how to remove the cookies from the agenda. You can do the opposite from me, using priorities only

Re: [O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-10 Thread John Wiegley
> Michael Heinrich writes: > 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. Hi Michael, planner author here and now org-mode user too. :) You'll have to change the posit

[O] agenda: personal priority for today

2013-04-10 Thread Michael Heinrich
Hi everyone, 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. Typically I schedule the next actions for today which I want to do today so that they appear in my agenda buffer. The