[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: emacs-wiki-discuss Digest, Vol 12, Issue 17

[Jody Klymak]

Hi Raymond,

"Raymond Zeitler" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 at 08:30:17 -0800, Jody wrote:
>
> "...I wonder if there is any *practical* use to assigning the task to a
> few categories..."
>
> Maybe not for tasks, but for notes on a task, my answer is "Yes,"
> especially if you want to refer back to what you did and why you did it
> several months later.  You might want to find the notes that you wrote
> concerning, say, a scripted visual progress bar.  Which plan page was
> that?  Was it in the StatProg page?  Or the DataBase page?  Or
> ScriptFiles page?  Or NeatoCodeThingies page?  Or CoolWebPages (since
> you lifted it from a web page)?  I suppose you can grep around to find
> it....
>
> But if I could use C-u remember-region and enter multiple plan pages, I
> wouldn't have to worry about finding it.
>
> See, I'm the kind of person who thinks the horseradish sauce should go
> into the same spot in the 'fridge each time.  Because when you're
> putting it away, it's in your hand so you know where it is, and it's
> takes less time to put it in a certain spot than it does to look for it
> the next time.  (I'm sure there are medications I could take to control
> this, though.)  :)
>

Your points are well-taken, but aren't they a little contradictory.
By analogy, you would have a bottle off horseradish sauce on each
shelf of your fridge, and a bottle of mustard on each shelf, etc. etc,
and a very full and complex fridge.

I limit myself to a few plan pages for miscellany that comes up all
the time.  i.e. "ComputerStuff" pretty well covers all computer
things I need to look up.  I could, of course, have EmacsStuff,
LatexStuff, MatlabStuff, MacStuff, WindowsStuff, CoolUtilities, etc
etc, but then I would not know where to find anything.  Is
ComputerStuff really long?  Sure, but if I am looking for the short
guide to latex "C-s lshort" gets me there in few keystrokes.  

Anyways, thats just how I work.  A few (maybe twelve) plan pages, all
of which are somewhat long.  But now I only have seventeen places to
assign items.  In fact here they are: BooktsToGet, CoastLog (inactive
work), ComputerStuff, CookingPlans, DailyThoughts, FlipLog (work),
GiftIdeas, HealthNotes, HomeLog (work, believe it or not), KnightInlet
(work), MeetingsLog (work), MusicToGet, ProposalsLog (work),
ReadingNotes (work), RevelleLog (work), RevelleProcessing (work).
Thats about all my little brain can handle.  There are, of course, a
few others, but they never get used.

I've been thinking about making project pages for parts of my
projects, but it hasn't jelled in my head yet how to do this sensibly

Cheers,  Jody

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