Re: specifying priority with template expansion

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Dec 3, 2010, at 11:42 PM, David A. Thompson wrote:

> On 12/03/2010 12:40 PM, Jeff Horn wrote:
>> Can you give us a better idea of the use case? As I understand,
>> unprioritzed todos count as "B" by default. Since most of my tasks
>> have a priority of B, I've never found setting priorities to be
>> helpful until I sit down to review my work for the day.
>>
>> I prioritize items that are important (or urgent) with A at the
>> beginning of the day (no more than a couple, usually). Most items are
>> "B" and rarely more than half of those get done.
>>
>> If I want to "sink" an item but keep it scheduled, it gets a  
>> priority of "C".
>
> Most of my todos are neither associated with deadlines nor are they  
> scheduled. Schedules and deadlines have seemed a more time-intensive  
> way to go relative to setting priorities (but perhaps this is a  
> 'Green Eggs and Ham' thing?)
>
>> These are often things I do not know when recording an item.
>
> I guess the main difference is that I generally am typically able to  
> recognize, when recording a todo, whether it's in the 'urgent/asap'  
> pile (A), the 'try-and-get-it-done-sometime-soon' pile (B), or in a  
> 'sure-would-be-nice-to-get-it-done' pile (C). Given that, it seemed  
> both logical and more efficient to immediately prioritize the item  
> rather than going back later and prioritizing the item.

You might want to consider to make separate templates with two-key  
access for these different priorities.  Then you could uce

C-c c t a   for priority A
C-c c t b   for priority B

etc.

Might be more efficient in your case then reading and responding to a  
prompt.

But my intuition would also be to just assume B (which is the same as  
giving NO priority at all), and changing it to A or C with S-up and S- 
down on the headline while editing the template.

HTH

- Carsten