[emacs-wiki-discuss] Planner and GTD - quick thoughts

[Sacha Chua]

Hello, everyone!

Quick thoughts about Planner and David Allen's Getting Things Done.
Has anyone tried the following tweaks?

- Change planner-create-task-from-buffer to default to undated,
  non-project tasks. Prompt for a date if called with a prefix
  argument. This should simplify the collection aspect.

- Processing: categorize tasks by editing the text description. If the
  task is not linked to anything else (as is the case for an undated
  task that's only in TaskPool), then you can edit it manually.

- Use C-c C-c to schedule day-specific tasks (and only day-specific
  tasks). Day pages: tasks that absolutely must be done on that day,
  relevant notes, and tasks actually finished on that day.
  
- Use text descriptions instead of project pages to represent context,
  projects. Use planner-trunk or sacha/planner-score-sort-tasks to
  sort things dynamically. Use interactive search to jump around
  easily.

- Define a bunch of trunk definitions or score keywords. Switch
  between them quickly to get different 'views' of your data.

- Use something like sacha/planner-track-finished-tasks to
  automatically reschedule completed tasks onto today's page. Better
  yet, change it to remove the task from TaskPool after you're done.
  (The planner-multi-copy-tasks-to-page flag controls something
  similar.)

- Change function called by C-c C-c in remember buffers. Hmm. Where
  should notes be placed? Universal prefix: add note to date page (not
  just today's). Default: some kind of inbox. Also, add an equivalent
  of C-c C-c for notes.

Hmm...
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