From: "Robert P. Goldman" <rpgoldman@sift.info>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Request for suggestions about best practices: tracking responses
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:53:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i7ft5t$8tj$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocbpo81o.fsf@mundaneum.com>
On 9/22/10 Sep 22 -3:08 PM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Robert Goldman wrote:
>> Often now I have org-mode tasks that I move to WAIT status when I send
>> someone an email to get some next step done.
>
> I do that as well. Though, I'm still testing what my own process must be like.
>
>
>> The problem is that I have a hard time getting back to those tasks when
>> I get a response email (or phone call).
>>
>> There is nothing salient about these that means that when I get a
>> response email, I see the task and can mark it as completed.
>>
>> Does anyone have a good solution for this?
>>
>> I have a hazy idea that always having a special agenda window open with
>> a special agenda display of tasks awaiting responses might do the trick,
>> but few ideas about how to accomplish this in practice. Presumably a
>> special TODO status for awaiting response, and special agenda view...
>> does that sound reasonable? I notice that the manual refers to "THE
>> agenda." Is it possible to have multiple agenda windows so that I could
>> always have the "waiting for response" agenda up w/o cutting off my
>> access to other views?
>
> As far as I fully understand your request, what you need is a custom agenda
> report:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
> '(("W" "Waiting"
> todo "WAIT" nil)))
> #+END_SRC
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I know how to make a custom agenda for this; the problem is more how to
have that custom agenda always open for me to glance at. I don't want
to have to call up this agenda every time I get an email or a phone call
to decide whether a waiting task is "unwaiting"...
Should one open an org agenda buffer, and then rename it, so that
following org-agenda commands don't wipe it?
thanks,
r
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-23 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-22 14:04 Request for suggestions about best practices: tracking responses Robert Goldman
2010-09-22 20:08 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-09-23 15:53 ` Robert P. Goldman [this message]
2010-09-23 18:44 ` David Maus
2010-09-23 19:06 ` Robert Goldman
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