Setting the default todo priority ?

Setting the default todo priority ?

[David Masterson]

I see that Org treats TODOs without a priority cookie as having a
priority that is midway between highest and lowest.

Use case: I may have a task type that fully expresses what it's priority
is.  Example would be SOMEDAY which is going to have the lowest
priority.  Adding a cookie to all SOMEDAY tasks seems superfluous.

Is there a way of changing the default priority?
-- 
David Masterson

Re: Setting the default todo priority ?

[Nick Dokos]

David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:

> I see that Org treats TODOs without a priority cookie as having a
> priority that is midway between highest and lowest.
>
> Use case: I may have a task type that fully expresses what it's priority
> is.  Example would be SOMEDAY which is going to have the lowest
> priority.  Adding a cookie to all SOMEDAY tasks seems superfluous.
>
> Is there a way of changing the default priority?

C-h v org-priority-{highest,lowest,default}

-- 
Nick

"There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler

Re: Setting the default todo priority ?

[David Masterson]

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I see that Org treats TODOs without a priority cookie as having a
>> priority that is midway between highest and lowest.
>>
>> Use case: I may have a task type that fully expresses what it's priority
>> is.  Example would be SOMEDAY which is going to have the lowest
>> priority.  Adding a cookie to all SOMEDAY tasks seems superfluous.
>>
>> Is there a way of changing the default priority?
>
> C-h v org-priority-{highest,lowest,default}

Doh!  That was obvious.  I'm getting old.  Thanks.

-- 
David Masterson

Re: Setting the default todo priority ?

[TRS-80]

David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:

> Use case: I may have a task type that fully expresses what it's priority
> is.  Example would be SOMEDAY which is going to have the lowest
> priority.  Adding a cookie to all SOMEDAY tasks seems superfluous.

I see that Nick already directly answered your question.

However, I wanted to point out that I think 'todo state' and 'priority'
are orthogonal.  For example, I also use 'SOMEDAY/MAYBE' as one of my
todo states.  However, within that subset, I still also use 'priority'.
In my case, I use it to differentiate between things I might actually
get to soon, vs. those I may truly never get to.

Anyway, just some food for thought.

-- 
Cheers,
TRS-80