Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Making planner simpler

[Alan Schussman]

Seth Falcon wrote:

> One simplification to consider: make the default to assign nil date to 
> new tasks created with C-c C-t.  An aspect of planner.el that isn't all 
> that clear for me (as newbie) is how tasks are and are not automatically 
> moved around.
>
> Having discovered assigning nil date, I feel like I'm understanding 
> things more (or encountering fewer surprises) and that it is a better 
> way, for me, to use planner anyhow.  Write tasks first, schedule later ;-)

Discovering this really improved the way I use planner, too. It had 
never occurred to me to plot out a whole set of tasks, and then 
incrementally assign them dates, partly because planner seemed so 
insistent that I give dates to tasks when I create them (and, perhaps, 
because that's the model of so many other planning tools that don't 
separate projects from days).

-Alan