I can see that an "incident" can be seen as a TODO; indeed, anything event
can start as a TODO, then move on in status to one of your other
org-todo-keyword entries. Question: When I start the TODO process, and then
update the status, once or more times, finally, perhaps with DONE, is there
a record of this "Werdegang," this process?

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:50 PM Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:

> i have no right to respond as i have 483 scheduleds and 28 deadlines
> and i get lost even trying to get one thing done per week, but i just
> wanted to add to the advice so far.
>
> there is org-edna for dependencies.  org-depend also, but i think it
> lacks the feature of scheduling a remote org-id header once a local
> one is doneified.
>
> it is useful to stick inactive timestamps at boh on headlines, so you
> can do all sorts of things like visually bisect to find what you are
> looking for, search only the visible headlines, etc.  this makes for
> good logging.  [others will recommend date trees instead.]
>
> i like this type of discussion as we have had few of them in the last
> 8 years or so and there is much insight for usage and even fodder for
> better features or refactoring, i think.
>
> gtd is too labor-intensive for myself, but others will suggest reading
> materials if you think it fits.
>
> org is flexible so it's really a toolkit for figuring out your own
> structures.  i'd suggest not getting too fancy at first because yagni
> sometimes applies.
>
> ===
>
> i find it useful to think of my org forest as an ontology of
> representations of preferably physical objects that become canonical
> locations in it.
>
> thus, your washer is one holon [subtree] and you always know where to
> refile to for it.  then you don't need tags as much; you can use org
> id links to make the forest a digraph.  location determines identity.
>
> this is in contrast to, for example "stuff to do for maintenance".
>
> --
> The Kafka Pandemic
>
> What is misopathy?
>
> https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
>