Re: [Orgmode] workflow objective... how to display ONE task, take notes on it, etc

[Michael Gilbert]

Thank you to Tycho & Bernt. You both got be down the right rode. I've now 
managed to find several acceptable ways to do this. 

— Michael

On Mar 10,2010, at 3:32 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:

> Org-mode just keeps growing on me. Now I have workflow I want to check out. 
> It's my habit to try to clear my screen of everything except the one task I 
> am working on (and logging) and its associated documents and tools. I want to 
> try to implement this in orgmode. Ideally, it would look something like this:
> 
> - select a task from the AGENDA
> - drill down to a view of just that task with only the task & subordinate 
> items visible
> - edit those subordinate items, especially notes
> - log the time I spend there
> - log out, save notes, change task status
> - return to agenda
> 
> Am I missing some obvious built-in way to do this? (I find that this has 
> happened so often, regardless of how esoteric my objective) that I had better 
> ask. Or could someone help me think through how it might be done?