Re: Manage and display personal milestones

[Bastien <bzg@altern.org>]

Hi Alex,

"Alex Rudyk" <alex.rudyk@gmail.com> writes:

> I am tiring to use milestones in my orgmode system. This is the major
> events in my personal activities workflow, similar to software projects
> milestones.
>
> I added MILESTONE into org-todo-keywords variable and it works great.
> Also I am using deadlines to schedule milestone date. The main problem
> is how to display millstones in agenda buffer sorted by deadline and
> display deadline date near milestone text.

I'm not sure to understand how you use the keyword MILESTONE.  Can you
be a bit more specific, maybe give an example of your Org file and the
expected agenda view?

I can think of three ways of implementing something like milestones:
TODO keywords, tags and properties.  Did you already try to use tags
and/or properties?  

For me, a milestone would be an ordinary task with an additionnal bit of
information, and I would put this piece of information in a property.
For example:

,----
| * TODO Release 1.2
|   DEADLINE: <2007-12-15 sam>
|   :PROPERTIES:
|   :Milestone: Unicorn
|   :END:
| 
| * TODO Fix bug #322
`----

> Also its interesting is anybody using milestones or similar concept
> with orgmode, if yes how you implement them, and what is your workflow
> to manage them?

I would also be interested in this.   Did you make any progress on this
since you last posted your question?

-- 
Bastien