Re: optimal usage Q : how would you do this?

[Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

Hi, Richard

>
> Lets say I have a load of contracts to follow up on.
> heres the raw data
> ,----
> | Contracts to follow up on
> | 
> |  Basics
> |   Vattenfall
> |   Water
> |   HanseGas
> |  Insurances
> |   Zürich
> |   BGN
> |   IHK (not really insurance though)
> |  Suppliers
> |   Unterbichler
> |   COlle
> |   Ökokill
> |   Tobacoland
> |   Strelow
> `----
>
> How would you organise that in org?
I'd transform plain test in headline with `C-c *'
(`org-toggle-heading') [1]

and would work with the power of TODO items: Agenda, sparse tree...

> And how would you do it with regard to the keyboard and levelling.
Depends on your file.
 
Basics  ( nth---level)
 Water  ( nth+1-level)

>
> Is there a short cut to generate the lot as a multilevel single todo item with
> a list of sub components which must each be done? 
Statistics [/] [%] works also for TODOs

[1] Manual: Structure editing

cheers,
Giovanni