[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: More flexibly named "Time" pages

[Greg Novak]

> > This is starting to sound very usable. I currently don't do the 'top
> > down planning approach' although I've read about it. Probably why I
> > never seem to *really* make progress on the things that I want to do
> > at the long timescale periods. I guess this would use
> > planner-multi.el as well?
>
> No, you won't need special support from planner-multi, since the
> high-level pages contain only high-level goals and the detailed pages
> contain only detailed tasks. In fact, the weekly high-level goals
> don't even need to be tasks. They can just be plain text.

True, they don't need to be tasks, but I think it's nicer if they are. 
This way you can keep _all_ the day, week, and month tasks associated with 
a given project on the Plan page.  So all the "strategy" stuff goes into 
the Plan page and all the "time allocation" stuff goes into the time 
pages.  This is one of the things I like about how Planner handles day 
pages: you can either look at all the things associated with a given day, 
or all the things associated with a given project.  I think it's nice to 
separate these two things.

So, right now if I try to enter 2005.August (or something like that) when 
Planner wants a date, it seems to ignore the input, as though I had typed 
"nil".    Planner seems to treat 2005.August as though it's a Plan page, 
not a Time page.  Therefore I'm using planner-multi to put links of the 
form (2005.August PersonalProject) into my tasks.

Greg