Announcing a new tutorial about org-mode, GTD using effort, column view and custom agenda commands

Announcing a new tutorial about org-mode, GTD using effort, column view and custom agenda commands

[Charles Cave]

Over the last few days I have been consolidating my GTD system,
fine tuning my files and understanding some of the subtleties
of the various org-mode features.

My tutorial is titled "How I use Emacs and Org-mode to implement GTD"

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/gtd_workflow.html

I demonstrate my use of Effort tags, column view, fast selection of
TODO states, refiling and customising refile targets.

I hope you find the tutorial useful, and please let me know any
errors, corrections or suggestions for additional content.

Thanks,
Charles Cave


Contents

    * What is Getting Things Done?
    * About the Author (of the tutorial)
    * Tools
    * The org mode text files
    * The main GTD File
    * Category tags
    * Context Tags
    * To Do states
    * Planning the Day
    * Estimating the Day's work
    * Working the Day
    * Reviewing the Week
    * Refiling
    * Note Taking
    * Synchronising home and work org-mode files
    * Further Reading

Re: Announcing a new tutorial about org-mode, GTD using effort, column view and custom agenda commands

[Richard KLINDA]

Very nice document, thank you Charles.

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Richard

Re: Announcing a new tutorial about org-mode, GTD using effort, column view and custom agenda commands

[Graham Smith]

Charles,

This looks really useful, thanks for posting it.

Graham

Re: Announcing a new tutorial about org-mode, GTD using effort, column view and custom agenda commands

[Gour]

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>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Cave <charles_cave@optusnet.com.au> writes:

Charles> I hope you find the tutorial useful, and please let me know any
Charles> errors, corrections or suggestions for additional content.

Thanks a lot - it's on reddit now ;)


Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: Announcing a new tutorial about org-mode, GTD using effort, column view and custom agenda commands

[Matthew Lundin]

Hi Charles, 

Nice tutorial! I just put a link up on the Worg time management page. 

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-gtd-etc.php

My only suggestion would be to set the subtree categories with
properties. E.g.,

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
** Calendar
   :PROPERTIES:
   :CATEGORY: Calendar
   :END:
*** Public Holidays 2009
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

According the org-mode manual, the use of multiple #+CATEGORY lines in
the same file still works, but has been deprecated.

http://orgmode.org/manual/Categories.html#Categories

Best,
Matt

Re: Announcing a new tutorial about org-mode, GTD using effort, column view and custom agenda commands

[Chris Willard]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Charles Cave wrote:

> Over the last few days I have been consolidating my GTD system,
> fine tuning my files and understanding some of the subtleties
> of the various org-mode features.
>
> My tutorial is titled "How I use Emacs and Org-mode to implement GTD"
[snip]

Hello Charles,

Thank's for the tutorial. I had not tried remember with Org-Mode until
I read it!

I have one question - I see from the templates that you are inserting
text into the template. Is there anything special in these text files
or is it just some standard text?

Regards,


Chris.

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