From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Spiers Subject: SOMEDAY/MAYBE vs. low priorities Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:11:16 +0000 Message-ID: <20071230181116.GE20947@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> Reply-To: Adam Spiers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J92d6-0007iD-2k for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:11:20 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J92d4-0007i1-Ks for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:11:18 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J92d4-0007hy-GP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:11:18 -0500 Received: from mail.beimborn.com ([70.84.38.100]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J92d4-0005x4-5V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:11:18 -0500 Received: from mail.beimborn.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.beimborn.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.8) with ESMTP id lBUIBHMO000922 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:11:17 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by mail.beimborn.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id lBUIBG8K000917 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:11:16 GMT Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: org-mode mailing list GTD methodology suggests having "someday" and "maybe" task buckets for things which you want to remember to do at some undetermined point in the future. So far I have implemented this in org-mode by using SOMEDAY and MAYBE keywords. However I have been deliberating whether in fact these states are simply low priorities in disguise, and whether as a result it would make more sense to use [#D] for "someday" and [#E] for "maybe", on the grounds that "someday" implies that you really do want to accomplish the task eventually, whereas "maybe" implies that you're not yet decided whether you care too much if it ever gets accomplished, and is hence lower priority than "someday" (and probably the lowest priority imaginable, in fact). Pros: - Priorities become truly orthogonal to workflow, e.g. if your workflow keywords are PROJECT, PROJDONE, NEXT, STARTED, WAITING, DONE etc. then you can mark any of these as someday/maybe priority. This is quite a big advantage AFAICS. Cons: - By default org agenda TODO searches will operate on all TODO entries, regardless of priority. This means that you'd have to customise every existing agenda view of TODOs to restrict to only priorities #A to #C, which would be very cumbersome. What do people think? Are there other pros/cons, and is there a clean solution to "generally" restricting TODO views to #C or higher priority?