From: Kyle Machulis <kyle@nonpolynomial.com>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org todos on paper?
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:28:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF1EFccsRX3gEEJd+aEQ8RCVkwqqBn=qnVD1s9UEXJVoYkrJjw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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I had a set of scripts cron'd to like 4am that would run emacs, output a
daily agenda export, and email that to me, which I would sometimes print.
It was super handy.
Of course, they stopped working a while ago but I keep meaning to fix that.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Peter Neilson <neilson@windstream.net>wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:23:26 -0500, Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I keep meeting people who say they started getting more things done more
>> efficiently once they started printing out their tasks lists, so they can
>> have the experience of seeing the list on paper and, more importantly, the
>> satisfaction of crossing an item off on the page.
>>
>> Does anyone have a workflow they're happy with that involves printing out
>> their org-mode todo lists?
>>
>
> Exactly. My to-do items are mostly physical activities related to taking
> care of farm animals, rather than things I'm doing on my computer. It makes
> little sense to try to follow a list on a laptop or smartphone when walking
> back and forth in mud, or when picking up items at the farm-supply store. I
> update my to-do items occasionally in emacs, but as much as I've loved
> using emacs for nearly 40 years, it's not my constant companion outdoors in
> the weather, or when handling horses or shearing sheep. A printed piece of
> paper in my pocket is much easier to use, and little harm is done if it
> falls into the stock tank or gets trampled by livestock.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-28 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-28 1:23 org todos on paper? Peter Salazar
2014-02-28 2:22 ` Peter Neilson
2014-02-28 2:28 ` Kyle Machulis [this message]
2014-02-28 3:12 ` Ken Mankoff
2014-02-28 10:00 ` Christian Moe
2014-02-28 10:44 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-02-28 11:15 ` Peter Neilson
2014-02-28 13:09 ` Christian Egli
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