From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Xavier Maillard Subject: Day workflow: need your opinion Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:57:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87y6q0dsts.wl%xma@gnu.org> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYD1e-0002x9-UH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:57:30 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYD1Z-0002vv-OJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:57:29 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42764 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYD1Z-0002vq-GI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:57:25 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50117 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYD1Y-000436-PE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:57:25 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MYD1V-0007KZ-Lf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:57:21 +0000 Received: from cha51-2-82-244-211-40.fbx.proxad.net ([82.244.211.40]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:57:21 +0000 Received: from xma by cha51-2-82-244-211-40.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:57:21 +0000 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi, I am not a serious org-mode user but I am trying to use it again for daily task planning (which everytime I tried, failed at ;)). I did my lectures thanks to the worg project (Bernst and John lecture were a real pleasure and sort of a non hittable dream to me) but I still not clear how I could take advantage of all I read (Bernst project concept is rather hard to understand for me, it lacks examples IMO). My main problem is that, at my work position (DBA), urgency is not given by what I plan to do but by whom is calling me -i.e if someone is calling me, it often means "forget what you were doing and do this instead". Given my fabulous talent of procrastination, this does not really help get organized and thus this does not help in getting things done. How would you use org-mode in this situation ? Ex: a) I doing some non urgent (planned) DBA tasks (call this project A) b) someone calls me (interrupting Project A) c) I am doing what urgency of b) is needed d) when c) is finished, I get back to project A At my job, they often rules the "retro planning" concept which is bloat. So how would you "manage" such situation in org-mode ? Thank you, Xavier