Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] new user questions - configuration, timeclock, nested task, publishing

[Seth Falcon]

On  1 Oct 2005, address@hidden wrote:
> 1.  I am not sure if the typical setup is to refer to a
> planner-config.el file in your .emacs file or explicitly put the
> load and require commands for all the different modules directly
> into the .emacs file.  What would be the most efficient method of
> setting up and configuring planner?

Another vote for a separate planner-config.el for the sake of
organization and such.

Here is snip from my .emacs (pretty sure I stole this from Sacha) that
loads configs that I keep in a dir that is on my load-path:

;; Modular config loader
(mapcar
 (lambda (library)
   (condition-case nil
       (unless (load library t)
         (message "Awww, %s didn't load." library))
     (error nil)))
 (list
  "email-config"
  "bbdb-config"
  "tramp-config"
  "planner-config"))

> 2.  I have not quite figured out how to do the timeclock mode. 
> Perhaps my .emacs file is incomplete but I cannot run (via M+x) any
> specific timeclock commands.  How do I use timeclock?

Haven't used it, but do you have:
(require planner-timeclock) in your planner-config.el?

> 3.  How do I setup a heirarchical structure to my tasks.  For
>     example,
> I have a project, say Cancer Screen, and under the project I have
> various tasks such as phone calls, emails, read, analysis, and write. 
> How do I create nested task?

I don't know of a good way to do this.  Things to look into:
- Use more plan pages (have (sub)plan pages for major taks within a
  project).
- Use planner-trunk to auto-organize tasks on the project page.

> 4.  I am not clear how to publish my schedule and how publishing it
> may be an advantage.  If I do publish the schedule, would it be
> editable via the browser (perhaps bad)?

I think the answer is no w.r.t. to editing via browser (without extra
effort).  As to whether publishing provides value, well, that is on
you.

> emacs.  We do all our work in emacs with R/ESS/Sweave/LaTeX so the
> planner mode is an ideal extension.  Thanks again.

Always happy to see that people are making use of R/ESS/Sweave.

Best,

+ seth