[emacs-wiki-discuss] Planner Parasites

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Actually, I sent this to Sacha a few days ago.  However, I think she's
really busy at the moment.  I'm curious for replies, however, and I
figured here would be a good place to seek them. :)

- CAW

Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> writes:

> Hey, here's an idea I've had for a while, something that would
> certainly help greatly with helping, making the whole process take
> significantly less time.  I can't seem to think of a good term, so I'm
> just going to go with a humorous one: Planner Parasites! :)
>
> You're both a student and a professor, from what I understand, so I'll
> use that as a base example.  Say you're teaching a class.  You have
> five major assignments in the class, and it meets every tuesday and
> wednesday from 2 PM to 3:30 PM.  So you write out a parasite file for
> this:
>
>
> embed{
> [appointment][weekly]
> start: APR 25 2005
> end: JUN 4 2005
> named: CSI 230; Intro to Lisp
> days: TUE WED
> time: FROM 1400 TO 1530
> }
>
> embed{
> [task]
> due: MAY 10 2005
> named: Hello World
> }
>
> And so on.  Though I'm assuming you'd have more complicated
> assignments due than "Hello World!" ;)
>
> The advantage of this is, instead of each and every student having to
> write in all the dates into any kind of digital planning device, you
> can just send them a "parasite" for them to embed into their planning
> program.  Or vice versa, you're taking a class.. wouldn't it be nice
> if you didn't have to do redundant planning, when you could just
> download the parasite file every other student in the class does,
> rather than taking the time to put it in yourself?  Or, when you have
> a doctors' appointment, your doctor could send a parasite to your
> inbox, which you could activate in gnus...
>
> I dunno, this is a goofy idea, but I figured you'd be the best to have
> comments on it! :)
>
>
> Christopher Allan Webber