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diff --git a/2020/info/11.md b/2020/info/11.md index 425a4c3b..10d5138e 100644 --- a/2020/info/11.md +++ b/2020/info/11.md @@ -21,19 +21,17 @@ over those too. ## For how many years have you used Org? -### At least five years, I don't know exactly how long +At least five years, I don't know exactly how long ## What about delegated actions of a project? Do they get moved to the delegated heading and moved back to the project when finished? - -### They stay where they are, because they belong to the project. Org-edna will automatically mark it as NEXT when its time comes. The user can mark it as WAIT easily through the agenda. I would like an org-gtd command to queue up "mark as WAIT", "add the DELEGATED\_TO property", and "schedule a check-in time", but I haven't yet done the research to figure out a clean integration of such a custom action with the agenda view. +They stay where they are, because they belong to the project. Org-edna will automatically mark it as NEXT when its time comes. The user can mark it as WAIT easily through the agenda. I would like an org-gtd command to queue up "mark as WAIT", "add the DELEGATED\_TO property", and "schedule a check-in time", but I haven't yet done the research to figure out a clean integration of such a custom action with the agenda view. ## Are you only using linear next-task-method or do you use org-edna to mark tasks even in other projects as NEXT? - -### Currently I only use linear next-task-method, for two reasons. One is a technical reason, another one is part of my current approach to GTD: +Currently I only use linear next-task-method, for two reasons. One is a technical reason, another one is part of my current approach to GTD: - I haven't yet had a reason to consider that, say, a project might block another project, or that an action might block a project - possibly I haven't tried to do complex enough things in my life yet, and so I've always been able to simplify what I had to do into linear projects, even if it was a simple linear project with a last task of "create a new project based on what I've learned" @@ -44,36 +42,20 @@ over those too. ## How do you make use of incubated items? Do they show up in the agenda for the whole day? That would be distracting, I guess. - -### I have a block of time, every morning, dedicated to processing the inbox and seeing what's on my plate for the day. I would use this time to decide what to do with the incubated item: incubate it again, make it into a project, discard it, etc. My "incubate" file has a bunch of top-level headlines like "To Read", "To Watch", "To Eat", "To Visit", etc. +I have a block of time, every morning, dedicated to processing the inbox and seeing what's on my plate for the day. I would use this time to decide what to do with the incubated item: incubate it again, make it into a project, discard it, etc. My "incubate" file has a bunch of top-level headlines like "To Read", "To Watch", "To Eat", "To Visit", etc. - That sounds similar to SOMEDAY-list, but processed on per-item basis. If you decide to re-incubate an item, how to you chose the new time? # Notes - -## [speaker] I forgot to mention this in my talk because it's fairly recent: someone pointed me to screens that David Allen designed for "the ideal GTD app", which means I've got some path forward for making emacs the ideal GTD app (see <https://github.com/Trevoke/org-gtd.el/issues/21> ) - - -## Showcases org-gtd: <https://github.com/Trevoke/org-gtd.el> - - -### Custom org-gtd-capture, but reusing parts of org-mode - - -### org-edna (state trigger) for automatically changing TODO to NEXT after the previous task has been finished: <https://www.nongnu.org/org-edna-el/> - - -### idea of having an actionable file - -- maybe org-edna will automatically change TODO to NEXT in that file(?) - - - [speaker]: indeed :D Well, in projects, yes, it doesn't make sense in other categories - - -## Testing via buttercup ( <https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/emacs-buttercup> ) - - -## I'm using org-edna as well and I want to point others to <https://github.com/toshism/org-linker-edna> which is an enormous help when working with edna. +- [speaker] I forgot to mention this in my talk because it's fairly recent: someone pointed me to screens that David Allen designed for "the ideal GTD app", which means I've got some path forward for making emacs the ideal GTD app (see <https://github.com/Trevoke/org-gtd.el/issues/21> ) +- Showcases org-gtd: <https://github.com/Trevoke/org-gtd.el> + - Custom org-gtd-capture, but reusing parts of org-mode + - org-edna (state trigger) for automatically changing TODO to NEXT after the previous task has been finished: <https://www.nongnu.org/org-edna-el/> + - idea of having an actionable file + - maybe org-edna will automatically change TODO to NEXT in that file(?) + - [speaker]: indeed :D Well, in projects, yes, it doesn't make sense in other categories +- Testing via buttercup ( <https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/emacs-buttercup> ) +- I'm using org-edna as well and I want to point others to <https://github.com/toshism/org-linker-edna> which is an enormous help when working with edna. |