Re: Org mode rant

[Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

>> Because it gives you a false sense of control, it slowly erodes your
>> goals' clarity, which weakens your motivation. You end up being
>> controlled by a list of things to do instead of focusing on doing
>> them. You hope that your tool will help you achieve self-discipline
>> instead of disciplining yourself to use it the right way.
>
> Maybe if you tell your practical use case where you got stuck, then it
> would become clearer for me as reader. I am so much interested.

I cannot go into details about my real use-case here but the gist of
the paragraph you quote is this: once in a while you feel your tool is
not helpful enough for handling your to-do, and then you start trying
to fix your Org configuration, trusting it even more, instead of
sticking to the principles I tried to outline in my post.

-- 
 Bastien