An article/tutorial I wrote abou org-mode and implementing GTD

An article/tutorial I wrote abou org-mode and implementing GTD

[Charles Cave]

Here is an article I wrote introducing org-mode to
implementing David Allen's "Getting Things Done"
methodology from stress-free productivity.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.html

The article itself was written with org-mode and exported
in HTML. You can see this article at
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.org


Comments and feedback welcome.

Charles Cave
Sydney,
NSW,
Australia

[Orgmode] Re: An article/tutorial I wrote abou org-mode and implementing GTD

[J. David Boyd]

Charles Cave <charles_cave@optusnet.com.au> writes:

> Here is an article I wrote introducing org-mode to
> implementing David Allen's "Getting Things Done"
> methodology from stress-free productivity.
>
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.html
>
> The article itself was written with org-mode and exported
> in HTML. You can see this article at
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.org
>
>
> Comments and feedback welcome.
>
> Charles Cave
> Sydney,
> NSW,
> Australia

Looks great, but I get this error when I load your orgmode.org file in 4.47
(or it may be 4.46):

File local-variables error: (error "Local variables entry is missing the prefix")


Dave

Re: [Orgmode] Re: An article/tutorial I wrote abou org-mode and implementing GTD

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 5, 2006, at 19:53, J. David Boyd wrote:
>
> Looks great, but I get this error when I load your orgmode.org file in 
> 4.47
> (or it may be 4.46):
>
> File local-variables error: (error "Local variables entry is missing 
> the prefix")

There is an incompatibility between the handling of local file 
variables in files between emacs 21 and emacs 22.  For emacs 22, either 
remove
the "# " (hash followed by space) from 3 lines near the end of the 
file, or make sure that al line from "Local Variables" to "End" have 
this same "# " prefix.

- Carsten



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[Orgmode] Re: An article/tutorial I wrote abou org-mode and implementing GTD

[Xiao-Yong Jin]

Charles Cave <charles_cave@optusnet.com.au> writes:

> Here is an article I wrote introducing org-mode to
> implementing David Allen's "Getting Things Done"
> methodology from stress-free productivity.
>
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.html
>
> The article itself was written with org-mode and exported
> in HTML. You can see this article at
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.org
>
>
> Comments and feedback welcome.
>
> Charles Cave
> Sydney,
> NSW,
> Australia

It's a very nice introduction to both emacs org-mode and GTD.  I would
like to see an easier implementation for your Portable Next Action
lists using the check box feature in the org-mode.  I think it's
better if you put all the next actions in check box list, but leave
the head lines for different categories.  But then I come to a
question.  Is there a way to list all the check box lists in a sparse
tree?  If there is, we can just print it.

Best,
Xiao-Yong

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Re: [Orgmode] Re: An article/tutorial I wrote abou org-mode and implementing GTD

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 5, 2006, at 23:36, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote:
> It's a very nice introduction to both emacs org-mode and GTD.  I would
> like to see an easier implementation for your Portable Next Action
> lists using the check box feature in the org-mode.  I think it's
> better if you put all the next actions in check box list, but leave
> the head lines for different categories.  But then I come to a
> question.  Is there a way to list all the check box lists in a sparse
> tree?  If there is, we can just print it.

Use org-occur to create such a tree.

Interactively with

  C-c / \[[ X]\] RET

or, if you want to do this more often, with a special command

(defun my-checkbox-tree ()
	(interactive)
     (org-occur "\\[[ X]\\]" 'org-at-item-p))

Best wishes

- Carsten

Re: [Orgmode] Re: An article/tutorial I wrote abou org-mode and implementing GTD

[Charles Cave]

Ni hao Xiao-Yong,

> It's a very nice introduction to both emacs org-mode and GTD.  I would
> like to see an easier implementation for your Portable Next Action
> lists using the check box feature in the org-mode. 

Thank you for your kind comments about my article. My use of org-mode
for implementing GTD methodology is still a work in progress as I learn
more about org-mode and experiment with how I structure my
file.

I was thinking that my Perl script could be coded in Lisp. I don't know enough
Lisp to implement the logic. The important thing to remember is that
I need one list for each tag (content) with a list of headlines that match
the tag.  For example, under HOME, I need a list ofall headlines that match the
tag of :HOME:

I have just started my study of check boxes in preparating for making an
org-mode file for my Weekly Review.

Charles