[emacs-wiki-discuss] Before I start on the learning curve, is planner mode for me?

[Geraldine]

Hello to everyone.  If any of you can help me on this I would be very grateful.

I have spent a few hours looking up stuff and trying to see how this
all works, and I was going to post some "help - n00b!" technical
questions to help me get started, but in my google and list archive
travels I read enough to question my assumptions that planner mode
might do what I want. So that is what I decided to post about rather
than technical questions.

INTRO:

The thing is, you see, I am new to emacs, I am a windows user, and
I've only done the tiniest bit of what you might call scripting. My
learning curve will be enormous.

I have been using a modified gtd type of system on wiki's - first a
personal windows wiki and then a server wiki (pmwiki) on wamp on
windows (it can't be online since I often don't have access).  The
problem is that the first program was not flexible enough and pmwiki
is not fast enough (reason possibly wamp, possibly the browser
interface).   Also not quite flexible enough.

So doing it from within a super text editor thing like emacs appeals
to me -  I imagine it will be quite fast.  Since emacs has a wiki mode
I could just start with that, but I suspect planner mode will be much
more useful.

The other thing is that I really really want to move to linux from
windows.  I have ubuntu up and running but I have not made the
transition yet since I am relying on old data back on windows.  I want
to get it into a linux-friendly format and make the jump.   So I have
the motivation -  but a lot of skills to learn.  And I need to know if
planner mode is actually what I think it is.

MAIN POINT:

Am I right in these following assumptions?

Emacs planner mode is based on emacs wiki mode, which works as a wiki.
Working as a wiki means internal links and automatically generated pages
Planner mode adds quick stuff for specifically making and scheduling
tasks and doing other fancy stuff

And will planner mode allow me to:

associate todo's with "projects", ala GTD, with links in both directions
give contexts, tags or labels to the todo's and/or the projects
date the todo's as necessary

That would be a start.  Thank you, reader, for your patience.

Geraldine