automatic scheduling of next task in project

automatic scheduling of next task in project

[Peter Rayner]

I would like org-mode to remind me automatically of the next task in a
project. Perhaps an example will help. I'll use outline headings to
show the levels of tasks

* Write trends paper
** global section
*** analyze GCP results
*** Calculate confidence intervals on trends
** Inverse Model section
*** Code to read inverse model output
*** Calculate regional Uncertainties 
**** Generate new region groupings
**** Rerun calculation

etc etc 
I can flatten this list into a list of TODO and I can store it as a
separate project that will be incorporated into the agenda view. What
I would like is that when I change one of these items to "done" the
next one is automatically scheduled into the agenda. It means I can
plan the workflow for a project then not have to bother remembering
where I was up to ... guess who is doing too many things at once :-) 
Is this already possible? If not, is it worth creating some kind of
file option so that, when a file is scanned for incorporation into the
agenda view, the first TODO item that isn't listed as done will be
listed in the agenda?
Thanks in advance
Peter



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Re: automatic scheduling of next task in project

[Karl Voit]

* Peter Rayner <peter.julien.rayner@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like org-mode to remind me automatically of the next task in a
> project. Perhaps an example will help. I'll use outline headings to
> show the levels of tasks

Auto-scheduling might be difficult.

In my workflows I am using dependencies with :BLOCKER: and settings
SCHEDULED dates roughly but on the aggressive side.

With (setq org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks t) I get them all on my
agenda. You just have to learn to visually ignore the dimmed tasks.
From time to time I re-check dimmed tasks for the reason why they
are dimmed/blocked to find dead-ends.


An additional/other approach would be the use of :TRIGGER:
chain-siblings(NEXT) in order to move the NEXT state from a finished
task to the next one.

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Re: automatic scheduling of next task in project

[Matt Lundin]

Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:

> * Peter Rayner <peter.julien.rayner@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would like org-mode to remind me automatically of the next task in a
>> project. Perhaps an example will help. I'll use outline headings to
>> show the levels of tasks
>
> Auto-scheduling might be difficult.
>
> In my workflows I am using dependencies with :BLOCKER: and settings
> SCHEDULED dates roughly but on the aggressive side.
>
> With (setq org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks t) I get them all on my
> agenda. You just have to learn to visually ignore the dimmed tasks.
> From time to time I re-check dimmed tasks for the reason why they
> are dimmed/blocked to find dead-ends.

You can also set org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks to 'invisible, which will
remove blocked tasks entirely from the agenda. Then, you could add the
property ":ORDERED: t" to the heading and schedule them (for the diary
agenda) or mark them NEXT/TODO (for the todo list). This would cause
each event to appear on the agenda after the blocking task is marked
done.

> An additional/other approach would be the use of :TRIGGER:
> chain-siblings(NEXT) in order to move the NEXT state from a finished
> task to the next one.

Or, since the OP is using org-depend.el (in contrib), he could also use
:TRIGGER: chain-siblings-scheduled(NEXT).

Best,
Matt

Re: automatic scheduling of next task in project

[Xebar Saram]

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Hi Peter and all
Peter you wrote:
I can flatten this list into a list of TODO and I can store it as a
separate project that will be incorporated into the agenda view

Do you mind giving a short example on how thats done? id be
very interested in using this myself

best

Z


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:

> Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
>
> > * Peter Rayner <peter.julien.rayner@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I would like org-mode to remind me automatically of the next task in a
> >> project. Perhaps an example will help. I'll use outline headings to
> >> show the levels of tasks
> >
> > Auto-scheduling might be difficult.
> >
> > In my workflows I am using dependencies with :BLOCKER: and settings
> > SCHEDULED dates roughly but on the aggressive side.
> >
> > With (setq org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks t) I get them all on my
> > agenda. You just have to learn to visually ignore the dimmed tasks.
> > From time to time I re-check dimmed tasks for the reason why they
> > are dimmed/blocked to find dead-ends.
>
> You can also set org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks to 'invisible, which will
> remove blocked tasks entirely from the agenda. Then, you could add the
> property ":ORDERED: t" to the heading and schedule them (for the diary
> agenda) or mark them NEXT/TODO (for the todo list). This would cause
> each event to appear on the agenda after the blocking task is marked
> done.
>
> > An additional/other approach would be the use of :TRIGGER:
> > chain-siblings(NEXT) in order to move the NEXT state from a finished
> > task to the next one.
>
> Or, since the OP is using org-depend.el (in contrib), he could also use
> :TRIGGER: chain-siblings-scheduled(NEXT).
>
> Best,
> Matt
>
>

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