Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Daily page vs. project page

[Thomas Gehrlein]

Sacha Chua <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden writes:
>
>> On my daily page, I want to create a task which refers to a project 
>> page.  For example I'd like to see:
>> Then, on the PayBills project page, I'd like to enter a bunch of 
>> tasks:
>
> I strongly feel that we need to support hierarchical tasks, but am not sure
> as to what would be a good interface for them. How will they be represented
> in text? How will they appear onscreen?
>
> Currently, project pages give us minimal support for hierarchical
> tasks. For example, you could have
>
> #A0 _ SomeProject (SomeProject)
>
> and in SomeProject have lots of little tasks. However, if these are
> scheduled on days, the day page gets really cluttered as pll observed.
>
> What would be a nice way of dealing with this?

Have tasks without date on the SomeProject page.  This seems like a simple and
elegant solution.  IMHO the biggest challenge is finding a good key-binding for
planner-create-task-without-date.

planner-copy-or-move-task could be used to assign a date to a task without date
- say you've finished 4 of the 5 tasks on SomeProject.  You mark

#A0 _ SomeProject (SomeProject)

as done and assign a date to

#A0 _ Not yet finished subtask (SomeProject)

Tasks without dates provide additional advantages:

1) Sometimes I plan a project, but don't know when I'll start with it.  I
   usually have a list of tasks on the ProjectPage, but I don't want to assign
   a date to them.  Support for tasks without date would make that easier.

2) Project templates.  If you have repeating projects, you define a template
   with the relevant tasks, and whenever a new project comes up, you save that
   template under a new name and assign dates to the tasks.

Thomas