[emacs-wiki-discuss] RE: 3-pages instead of day pages

[Raymond Zeitler]

Me, too, referring to your introduction, which I've quoted below.

Lately, I've resorted to writing tasks down on a scrap of paper.  I don't
even have time to enter tasks into Planner.

My job has become increasingly service oriented.  I'm supposed to be
designing product and developing processes and procedures.  But the amount
of support I need to provide for legacy product (there's no production
engineering here) means I get people coming in my office (or phone calls or
email) to ask about a potential 13 year's worth of stuff I've produced.
Even the interruptions that interrupt the interruptions are interrupted!  Is
this company crazy or what?  I'd walk, but I have a house and family to
feed.  (The house eats paint and caulk....)

Sorry about that.  What it boils down to is that I've got lots of projects
on the backburner and even some partly in a mixing bowl and several with
bookmarks in the cookbooks (to stretch the analogy.)  I'm afraid that if I
axed these from the day pages, I'd forget about them.  The idea of a page
devoted to Future work is wonderful.  And having a page of Closed stuff can
serve as a morale boost for those days when I feel hopeless.

I know, try M-x doctor.  :)


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Raymond Zeitler <address@hidden>

-----Original Message-----
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:27:28 +1100
From: Trent Buck <address@hidden>
Subject: [emacs-wiki-discuss] 3-pages instead of day pages
To: address@hidden

I've been reflecting on how I use planner this week; here's my 
synopsis.   http://twb.ath.cx/notes/on-planner.pdf
    http://twb.ath.cx/~twb/doc/muse/HTML/on-planner.html

The transcript follows for easy quoting in replies.

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#title On Planner
#subtitle How I use Emacs' Planner-Mode to manage tasks.

* Introduction

Using day  pages just  wasn't working  for me.  I  never scheduled  anything
in
advance, so all the open tasks just sat on the present day page.  Each day,
any
separation of the  tasks into groups would be lost as  all the unfinished
tasks
were brought forward.  And the fact that  a new file was being created each
day
and about  forty lines being  deleted from one  file and added to  another
made
using version control to manage the archive everything a real pain in the
arse.
Lastly, the  huge numbers of  day pages  felt messy and  the average of  of
one
completed item per page was depressing.
[snip]