From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.homelinux.net>
To: Peter Neilson <neilson@windstream.net>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: orgmode for many continuous tasks?
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:07:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0eeb6908-6ea2-d035-715c-f7907b24d6d9@ossau.homelinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.y64d60f8rns8nc@odin>
Hi Peter...
On 25/09/17 12:58, Peter Neilson wrote:
> Hmmm. I have similar problems, but on a somewhat more difficult level.
> A lot of my tasks are farm-related and are thus self-driven rather
> than org-mode-driven. For instance, two barn roofs need repair, and
> seeing them listed as TODO in an agenda does nothing to get started on
> them, or on the sub-tasks necessary to starting the work on the roofs.
> But when I look at the roofs, and thus am reminded of "* TODO Repair
> barn roofs", it's always when I'm already at work on something
> immediately more pressing.
>
> But it gets worse! If I think of a task that needs to be done, and
> write it into one of my TODO lists, then I tend to ignore it. Adding
> it to the schedule dismisses it from any immediate concern, and (as I
> alluded before) much of my work is outside, on the farm, nowhere near
> my computer. It's almost like Ko-Ko's solution in G&S's operetta 'The
> Mikado':
>
> Ko-Ko: When Your Majesty says "Let a thing be done", it’s as good as
> done, practically it is done, because Your Majesty’s will is law. Your
> Majesty says "Kill a gentleman", and the gentleman is to be killed,
> consequently that gentleman is as good as dead, practically he is
> dead, and if he is dead, why not say so?
> The Mikado: I see. [Dramatic Pause] Nothing could possibly be
> more...satisfactory!
>
> My problem with org mode itself thus becomes yet another action item
> (to be ignored):
>
> * TODO Devise a way to project my agenda (in unavoidable brilliance)
> onto the side of the barn, or perhaps embroider it into the fleece of
> my sheep (who * TODO need to be shorn).
>
> Plausible (or implausible) solutions to my problem or to Mycroft's are
> hereby solicited.
>
If I'm understanding correctly, part of your problem is that you don't
have org-mode with you when you're in the places that you can get things
done. In that case, part of the answer might be having your org-mode on
a mobile device.
I've just started using a new Android phone, with Orgzly on the phone,
and a manual sync process between the files that Orgzly works on and my
main org-mode files (which I keep in a git server, and update from
multiple laptops). So far I've only been doing this for 1 day, but it
looks promising.
Regards - Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-25 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-25 7:21 orgmode for many continuous tasks? Mycroft Jones
2017-09-25 11:58 ` Peter Neilson
2017-09-25 12:07 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2017-09-25 16:34 ` Mycroft Jones
2017-09-25 22:08 ` Tim Cross
2017-09-26 0:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-26 10:30 ` Melleus
2017-09-26 17:36 ` Mycroft Jones
2017-09-26 18:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-27 16:14 ` Melleus
2017-09-27 17:02 ` Mycroft Jones
2017-09-27 17:13 ` Peter Neilson
2017-09-26 19:41 ` Eduardo Mercovich
2017-09-25 20:28 ` Mikhail Skorzhinskii
2017-09-25 20:34 ` Mikhail Skorzhinskii
2017-09-27 23:24 ` Bob Newell
2017-09-28 5:48 ` Eric S Fraga
2017-10-03 23:04 ` Mycroft Jones
2017-10-04 5:38 ` Eric S Fraga
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