Re: Idea: Quicksilver-like Org-mode (anything.el)

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

This looks quite interesting indeed!

I guess it makes sense to wait a bit until anything.el
converges a bit more.  But this is certainly a great
idea.

- Carsten

On Jul 14, 2007, at 1:28, Scott Jaderholm wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> So I just ran across anything.el
> (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/anything.el) from Bill
> Clementson's blog (http://bc.tech.coop/blog/070711.html). It's a
> Quicksilver-like program for Emacs that allows you to quickly select
> objects and run actions on them.
>
> The first thing I thought of is how nice it would be to quickly add
> TODOs to a project and complete TODOs, without having to navigate to
> the buffer where they're located. I'm sure this isn't a new idea.
>
> With anything.el, you could add the task "Move pictures" to the
> project "Organize shared drive" by typing F5 Orga RET Move pictures
> RET.
>
> You could complete the task by typing F5 Move RET.
>
> Both those are assuming nothing else matches Orga or Move.
>
> Is this something people are interested in?
>
> Here's a quick list of the two objects (Name) and actions I thought
> of. I'm sure there are many others.
>
> * Anything.el
> ** Org-mode
> *** Name: Projects (level 2 headings)
> **** Action: Create new TODO
> **** Action: Create new subheading
> **** Action: Complete
> **** Action: Archive
> *** Name: TODO (level 3 headings)
> **** Action: Complete
> **** Action: Schedule
> **** Action: Set Deadline
> **** Action: Clock in
> **** Action: Clock out
> **** Action: Add note
>
> I'm sorry this email lacks code--it's just an idea.
>
> Thanks for reading,
> Scott
>
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