From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: "Sébastien Vauban"
<public-wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@plane.gmane.org>
Cc: public-emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@plane.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Suggestions needed for handling "ideas"
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:59:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87och4s5fq.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zl0pqke3.fsf@mundaneum.com> ("Sébastien Vauban"'s message of "Tue\, 27 Apr 2010 12\:07\:00 +0200")
Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
writes:
> I really am puzzled by using a "TODO state" for saying "this is a note".
>
> For me, a so-called TODO state is a circumstance (or a mode), so one
> transitional property on a cycle. That's something that evolves over time,
> such as:
>
> TODO -> NEXT -> STARTED -> WAITING -> DONE
>
> A NOTE does not belong to such cycles. It's just some kind of "property".
>
> I would be more inclined to view a NOTE "property" as a tag, but that does not
> satisfy me neither. Tags are for contexts, mainly resources we need to have at
> hand, or locations we need to be, or time ranges in which the action makes
> sense.
I think that's too narrow a view for tags. Tags should be whatever is
useful. It can be a context, or resources you need, or locations, or
anything else that is useful.
I use arbitrary tags to match items with an external tracking system -
and use the id of that system so I can match them easily. I also
use :NOTE: for notes. It works for my needs just fine. Tags are not
and should not be limited to context only. I also use tags for special
todo states... if I cancel a task I give it a CANCELLED tag too ... so
any subtask of the cancelled task is obviously cancelled and unavailable
to work on.
-Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-28 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-12 19:46 Suggestions needed for handling "ideas" Ali Tofigh
2010-04-12 20:38 ` John Hendy
2010-04-12 21:04 ` Ali Tofigh
2010-04-25 7:46 ` John Wiegley
2010-04-26 14:47 ` Ali Tofigh
2010-04-26 17:00 ` Matt Lundin
2010-04-26 17:30 ` Ali Tofigh
2010-05-20 0:14 ` Ali Tofigh
2010-04-27 10:07 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-04-28 1:59 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2010-04-26 16:16 ` Nathan Neff
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