[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: planner: why "move" tasks instead of copy?

[Sacha Chua]

Guy Berliner <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm very new to planner mode, so I probably don't understand it all

Welcome to Planner! =)

> COPY those tasks? Why have a file on the disk with yesterday's date
> that doesn't show all the tasks I worked on that day, but only the
> ones I finished?

Hmmm, excellent point. What would be a good way to deal with this?
What kind of information would you like to be left behind on
yesterday's page?

I usually break it down to smaller tasks so that I see a lot of things
checked off, but far be it from us to insist that people change the
way they work...

> So, is there a way to change this default behavior so that the
> unfinished tasks always get copied instead of moved?)

What's a good way to distinguish between unfinished tasks that are
just there for archiving purposes and unfinished tasks that still need
attention? Hmm.

Is this a distinction we need to make? I suppose we could write a
version of M-x plan that always copies tasks forward as long as
they're not duplicated. Let's see if we can make that work.

M-x plan would scan recent days for all tasks. Any unfinished task
gets put into a list. If it encounters the finished version of any of
the tasks in the list, it marks the task as finished. Today's page is
then populated with the unfinished tasks on the list, and any project
pages are updated to reflect the latest date.

How would that work when you postpone tasks to the future? If the line
disappears from the current page, then you shouldn't call M-x plan
again. If the line stays on the current page, then I suppose we can
have a special status letter for "Procrastinated"... <laugh>

What are some alternatives?

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