Re: When is a TODO really a TODO ? ...

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@alumni.uwaterloo.ca>]

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> you make an interesting point.  The fact that items with a process
> state are called TODO
> items had two roots:
>
> - historically:  Initially, there was only TODO and DONE.
>
> - pedagogically: Org-mode tries to be "easy-entry, but then
>   lots of stuff under the hood".
>   This is why TODO items are introduced the way they are.
>   You said that you have been confused by this, so maybe it
>   is not the right way after all.  Any proposals on how to
>   address this in the docs?
>

Maybe just call todo items 'Tasks' and their current state is 'TODO',
'DONE', etc ?

,----
| * TODO Thing 1
|   I'm a task
| ** NEXT Thing 1 first item
|    Me too! work on me next
| * Some random information
|   I'm not a task since I don't need to be 'done'
| * DONE Completed task
|   I'm a completed task
`----

Bernt