Re: [Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age

2009-07-01 Thread Bastien
Christopher League writes: > org-expiry is interesting.. I didn't know about that. Certainly there's > a similarity, although the point of view is different: "tasks that are > old and should be archived" vs. "tasks that are old and should be > FINISHED!!!" :) :) I wrote org-expiry.el a long

Re: [Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age

2009-07-01 Thread Christopher League
Thanks everyone. I think I managed to get something like David's suggestion working... I spent the most time trying to initialize the creation times from git though, with vc-annotate.. I don't think that was meant to be used non-interactively, but I beat it into shape. :) The other end of

Re: [Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age

2009-07-01 Thread Bastien
David Maus writes: > At Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:40:21 +0530, > Manish wrote: >> >> There are property and mapping APIs documented in the manual under >> section on hacking. > > And what a fun it is to train my elisp skills. A first hack that seems to > work: > > (defun dmj/org-assure-creation-proper

Re: [Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age

2009-07-01 Thread Bastien
Christopher League writes: > I would love to be able to sort TODOs by their age, so it becomes > painfully obvious what I have been ignoring. Since org relies on free- > form text (a strength), it's tricky to ensure that every item gets a > creation-time' property. But it doesn't need to be ac

Re: [Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age

2009-07-01 Thread David Maus
At Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:40:21 +0530, Manish wrote: > > There are property and mapping APIs documented in the manual under > section on hacking. And what a fun it is to train my elisp skills. A first hack that seems to work: (defun dmj/org-assure-creation-property () "Process all orgmode entries

Re: [Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age

2009-07-01 Thread Manish
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM, David Maus wrote: > At Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:04:39 -0400, > Christopher League wrote: >> >> I would love to be able to sort TODOs by their age, so it becomes >> painfully obvious what I have been ignoring. Since org relies on free- >> form text (a streng

Re: [Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age

2009-07-01 Thread David Maus
At Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:04:39 -0400, Christopher League wrote: > > I would love to be able to sort TODOs by their age, so it becomes > painfully obvious what I have been ignoring. Since org relies on free- > form text (a strength), it's tricky to ensure that every item gets a > 'creation-time

[Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age

2009-06-30 Thread Christopher League
I would love to be able to sort TODOs by their age, so it becomes painfully obvious what I have been ignoring. Since org relies on free- form text (a strength), it's tricky to ensure that every item gets a 'creation-time' property. But it doesn't need to be accurate to the second; even a s