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Re: [O] Quicker refile? Capture & progress cookies. Using capture to cou
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Gez |
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Re: [O] Quicker refile? Capture & progress cookies. Using capture to count/tally |
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Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:07:37 +0000 |
Bernt, I think your system (and your writing about it) is fantastic
and it has inspired me to develop mine.
On 17 November 2011 23:10, Bernt Hansen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Gez <address@hidden> writes:
> I almost exclusively use capture to quickly file away things I don't
> want to forget. This goes to my refile.org as a level 1 heading and
> isn't attached to anything yet.
I was resisting doing that because I have different todo's for
different files, but - it just occured to me - what's to stop me
listing all of the possible todo's at the top of a refile org file? I
might just do that.
> All of my tasks that need to be refiled show up on my block agenda view
> in the second section - immediately under today's agenda view.<snip>
> I'm using this block agenda view regularly during the day and the tasks
> to be refiled are constantly 'in my face' until I do something with
> them.
Yes, it would work if I added them to my block agenda.
> I refile these items mostly from the agenda - I tend to get 2 or 3 of
> them that are going to the same target so I'll mark them with 'm' and
> refile with 'B r'. My refile setup uses IDO completion for refile
> targets and I find this works very well. If I'm refiling to file x.org
> under '* Tasks' I'll do something like C-c C-w x.org C-SPC tasks RET The
> order of entering x.org/tasks doesn't matter - IDO is limiting the
> targets to the entered data so I can match part of what is left in the
> list.
It's because of reading your set-up that I use IDO now. I't's
amazing. Perhaps I need more practise in using it - cleverly
selecting what I enter - since I end up having to type the whole file
name including .org quite often. As good practise, I should probably
consistently start with the headline, since my filenames are not
unique enough (they match the equivalent archive file and also other
headlines).
> I've also set up refiling to remove DONE tasks from the list of
> available completion targets. This helps prevent mistakes where you
> refile to an already done tree (or if you have repeating separate tasks
> with the same name only the open ones show up as refile targets.)
I've had your page open for a while in firefox, gradually re-reading,
working through and modifying my setup. I was going to tackle some
clock-related stuff next, but now I think removing DONE tasks from the
list of targets might be the next thing I add.
>Refiling the thing to the right place isn't
> important right now so I put that off. Constantly having to move things
> to the right place as you capture them will be too slow IMHO.
I do know what you mean. I think I've erroneously feared that if I
insert a reminder out of context, I need to be more verbose than I
would otherwise, or I will forget later what it means, but I can
imagine that if I frequently check the items to refile, I probably
won't forget.
> Hope that helps,
Very much indeed.
Thank you.
Geraldine