[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Planner - Plan Pages - Tasks

[Jody Klymak]

Paul D. Kraus wrote:
> I have been using the franklin covey product that embeds in Micro$oft 
> outlook for awhile now. Its ABC priorities and weekly planning have been 
> one of my best tools to manage my time. However I don't really care for 
> Micro$oft products. I am an avid Linux user and hate being tied to my 
> Micro$oft box for scheduling. I know their are planner software out in 
> Linux but the integration into email/schedule/tasks with outlook and 
> covey was not replaceable not in any way that I wasn't giving something 
> up. I could care less about GUI's so when I stumbled across your plug 
> ins for emacs I was elated. I just set everything up and I am playing 
> with it and have some newbie questions. Not to familiar with the group 
> yet so if these questions should each be separate mails please feel free 
> to change the subject in your replies to split them.
>
> 1. If I create tasks in my own plan page for instance a plan page for 
> home, a plan page for work, and a plan page for project X and I do not 
> have start dates how can I on one screen see all of my tasks. I would 
> assume there is a way to see all tasks from all plan pages with links to 
> the actual plan pages but I can't seem to find it.

I don't think this is currently possible.  But it shouldn't be too hard 
to do...

> 2. How can I add a note to a specific task that is tied to the task not 
> the day page?

This is possible - C-h a task C-s note gives planner-create-note-from-task

> 3. How can I see appointments for several days rather then just the day 
> I am on. I like to see just my tasks that I have scheduled for today but 
> I like to see my next 3 days worth of appointments.

Depends on how you want to keep track of appointments.  If you want to 
use diary, then planner-diary.el can display as many days as you like. 
If you want to have tasks with "times" on them (which you get reminded 
by planner-appt.el), I don't think this is possible right now.  But it 
is surely doable.

I prefer planner-diary, particularly as there is a good diary to iCal 
converter (icalendar.el, though it doesn't "merge" entries).

Cheers,  Jody