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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Eduardo Suarez <esuarez@itccanarias.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:52:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fshalz05.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220831161348.GA2413557@itccanarias.org>

Eduardo Suarez <esuarez@itccanarias.org> writes:

> I have lots of tasks (todos) and I would like to create a long backlog based on
> my perceived priority.
>
> I was thinking to deal with them in the following way:
>
> - divide them in groups (categories or similar),
> - manually sort priority for every group,
> - mergesort groups, that is, start merging groups in pairs, and manually sort
>   for every step the union group until I have a large sorted backlog.
>
> For this to be practical, I would need an easy way to sort manually a group of
> tasks and get them assigned automatically a priority (or any other hack) so
> that priority ordering matches manual ordering.
>
> Any idea about how to get this done?

It sounds like you just want to have a list of active projects and
select one top-priority task at a time from each project. The projects
can be simply a headline with all the tasks listed as children.

I do not recommend assigning priority as a number. From my experience,
it is much easier to order the tasks manually inside a project. You will
need to re-order things as the project progresses anyway. Fiddling with
numbers will quickly become unmanageable.

I also do not recommend listing _all_ the tasks. It is much more
productive (again, from experience) to list the one top-priority task
for each project and nothing more until you finish the current task
batch. In GTD, this is usually done by assigning NEXT todo keyword to
the top-priority task, while all others are assigned as TODO. You may
also leverage org-edna package to flip TODO->NEXT once you complete the
current NEXT task.


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Ihor Radchenko,
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-02 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-31 16:13 Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority Eduardo Suarez
2022-08-31 16:27 ` indieterminacy
2022-08-31 21:42 ` Tim Cross
2022-09-09 10:01   ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-09-09 22:05     ` Tim Cross
2022-09-10  8:17       ` Eduardo Suarez-Santana
2022-09-02 12:52 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2022-09-06  9:15 ` Eduardo Suárez
2022-09-07  4:45   ` Ihor Radchenko

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