Manage and display personal milestones

Manage and display personal milestones

[Alex Rudyk]

Hi all,

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.

Not sure how to write custom agenda command for this. Any suggestions?

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?

Thx

Re: Manage and display personal milestones

[Bastien]

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

Re: Manage and display personal milestones

[Alex Rudyk]

Hi Bastien,

I have milestone as part of my org-todo-keywords sequence variable.

My org system is more close to Stephen Covey 3rd habit approach, so I am 
using week planning,
week and master goals setting. And now I am tring to create some mechanism 
that give me highlevel
view of my life planning. So I have created a roadmap.org file where I wrote 
my one-three months plan of my life.

In this file I have MILESTONE headlines as major events of my plans for 
different focus area. What I like to have
is the list of neareset milestones sorted by date. For example

Managemnt:    MILESTONE: Bla bla bla bla
                       Deadline: <12/23/07>
Study:             MILESTONE: Bla bla bla bla
                      Deadline: <12/31/07>
Study:             MILESTONE: la la la la :)
                      Deadline: <01/10/08>
................................

Now I am thinking that your idea to use tags for marking milestone is more 
convinient.
But using properties for this might be a more complecated that tags.

So the main questions is how to get agenda list similar above (with tags 
approach to mark milestone headlines) ???

Thx



"Bastien" <bzg@altern.org> wrote in message 
news:873aucekgi.fsf@bzg.ath.cx...
> 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
>
>
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