Re: Numeric Priorities (Was: Re: org priority cycling - removing priorities)

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

Hi,

On Sep 9, 2007, at 16:30, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:

> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> But as I said, this may not be good enough a reason.  Open for
>> discussion.
>
> I find the priority settings almost unusable for me.

[...]

> But for my work tasks, priorities are really important as they are
> given to me externally. So I need a lot of priority levels, both up
> and down from the default. And atleast I'm not so savvy with alphabet,
> that I could instantly see how much less important [#P] is than [#T] -
> especially with respect to the default level etc.
>

You can do all this by just inserting your own marker into entries.
The question is what do you want to *do* with these.

> So, how about adding a new feature, org-todo-use-numeric-priorities.
>
> This would make the priorities be like:
>
>   * TODO [#+2] Task 1
>   * TODO [#+1] Task 2
>   * TODO Task 3
>   * TODO [#-1] Task 4
>   * TODO [#-2] Task 5

You can use priorities 0-9 now.  Me personally, I believe this
priority game becomes entirely useless for more than a few values.

Any other takes on this?

- Carsten