[emacs-wiki-discuss] planner-reports!

[David O'Toole]

Jody Klymak <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> address@hidden writes:
>
>> #A1 _     Get Coffee
>> #A2 _ [-] PayBills
>> #A1 _     > Electric bill
>> #A2 _     > Water bill
>> #A3 _     > PhoneBill
>> #A1 _       > Home
>> #A2 _       > Business
>> #A3 _       > Cell
>> #A0 X     > Cable bill
>>
>> This view immediately tells me that:
>>
>>  - Paying bills is my 2nd task to work on today
>>  - The Electric is the most important
>>  - The cable bill has been paid
>>  - All of the phone bills need to be paid, and the home phone bill
>>    is the most important of these.
>
> Yes, but collapsed it tells you almost nothing except you have bills
> to pay.  I don't know about you, but for me this would be a constant
> entry.  The urgency of any particular bill would be hidden.  So in
> order for this to be useful, you'd have to have it uncollapsed all the
> time.  In which case, I'd argue that *not* using subtasks would be a
> lot more elegant:
>
>> #A1 _ Get Coffee
>> #A2 _ Electric bill (PayBills)
>> #A3 _ Home phone bill (PayBills)
>
> on your page a week before those bills are due.  Add more bills to the
> task list in the PayBills project page as necessary.  
>
>
>> This also shows that prioritization is relative to context.  An #A1 
>> priority in one subtask should not necessarilly get equal listing as 
>> an #A1 top-level task.
>
> Sure, and from the above I have no idea if your cell bill is due
> before or after your cable bill.  I can guess that a Phone bill of
> some sort is due first, but its pretty ambiguous which.  
>
> How would dates be honoured under such a system?  If the date for a
> subtask comes up but not for the other subtasks would you just
> display that subtask for that day?  Or the whole parent task?  
>
> I deal with subtasks by creating a note on the project page.  For
> instance I now have:
>
> #A2  _ Do things in RevelleLog#19 {{Tasks:113}} (RevelleLog)
>
> and in RevelleLog:
>
> .#19 Two d spectra 11:13 ([[2004.04.01#5]])
>
> Rob intrigued by assymetry: Todo?
> 1) bandsmooth and see whats in the higher wavenumber stuff..
>   - what is the shape of this and why is it not white?  Have I
>   induced this with my correlation methods?  THIS IS THE MAJOR TODO
>   HERE.  
> 2) Pricipal axis of shear? Not sure what to make of that
> 3) up and down spectra?  - Don't seem that useful.  But I may not
> have done the co-eff correctly.  
> 4) Do spectra over time windows (daily?) see if character changes?
> 5) What is ratio of u/v with f?  [[bbdb://Jen.*MacKinnon][Jen]] mentioned this
> 6) What is dispersion relation for M2?
> [[bbdb://Jen.*MacKinnon][Jen]] mentioned this.  
>
> Clearly I wouldn't want this todo list in my task list.  
>
> Just my $0.02.  Sacha *could* make planner into as sophisticated a
> project-manager as she wants, but I am curious when the point of
> diminishing returns is reached.
>
> Cheers,  Jody
>
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