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[Orgmode] Re: Sorting agenda items
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Manish |
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[Orgmode] Re: Sorting agenda items |
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Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:36:24 +0530 |
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Manish wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I would like to set up a daily agenda view with todos sorted in the
> following order:
>
> 1. Timed TODOs
> 2. DEADLINES
> 3. TODO type - STARTED
> 4. TODO type - NEXT
> 5. TODO type - TODO
>
> I could find/figure out how to do #1 and #2 but #3-5 escape me. I
> hope I did not miss it in the manual.
>
> The whole idea is to spend minimum brain cycles while picking up
> next item from the agenda. One way that makes sense for me is to
> reduce the size of region that I would scan while picking up next item
> (i.e. set of NEXT todos). I think it's possible if one uses tags to
> mark task state changes. Not sure how to do it with TODO keywords. I
> wonder if people just pick up whatever is on the top of the agenda or
> scan the whole list everytime you want to pick up next task?
>
> Hope it made sense.
>
While searching for how people deal with this, I found this almost 3
year old wonderful post about strategies to approach your tasks:
http://www.murtworld.com/2005/04/revolving-workflow-strategies.php .
And with latest sorting options "effort-up" and "effort-down", I
guess I have a sensible way to decide which next actions to pick up.
Thanks Carsten. I am thinking it's even better than sorting on TODO
keywords.
Now if only I can sort tasks based on their creation dates as
well. ;-) Just kidding.
-- Manish