In this video, I'll show you how I design tags for my Org Mode TODO items that ensure that I don't miss any of them by organizing the tasks via related contexts.
If you have TODO items spread across multiple Org files and can't keep track of them all, this video is for you!
#gnu #emacs #orgmode #productivity
Karl Voit
in reply to David Wilson • • •published a great video on #tagging headings in #Emacs #orgmode: youtu.be/GP8uOU6SSyk 🏷️
His method is clearly based on the #GTD method: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_…
In addition to that, I can recommend reading my article on how to use #tags in general in order to get useful tags: karl-voit.at/2022/01/29/How-to…
With org, you get the additional notion of having categories as well. You might want to read karl-voit.at/2019/09/25/catego… for that.
#PIM #publicvoit #tasks #taskmanagement #todo #todos
How to Use Tags
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in reply to Karl Voit • • •@publicvoit yep, definitely based on GTD!
About a year ago I realized that the "next actions list" in GTD isn't really about marking tasks as a NEXT state, it's about finding the tasks that are actionable based on your current context.
Karl Voit
in reply to David Wilson • • •Yes. I totally agree on that.
Next level: you've got hundreds of NEXT tasks. 😜
I personally have added one layer of "this is not relevant right now" after another.
It somehow works (even for my very large number of projects/tasks) but it doesn't feel like a good (general) workflow yet.
I keep improving.
karl-voit.at/tags/pim/
Related:
karl-voit.at/Nobodys-PIM-is-pe…
karl-voit.at/2021/08/30/the-or…
pim
public voit - Web-page of Karl VoitDavid Wilson
in reply to Karl Voit • • •@publicvoit that is the exact problem I had, NEXT becomes meaningless as a state!
I've been experimenting with creating more granular project notes which can either be active or backlogged so that their TODOs show up on the agenda if the project is active. Will have another video about that soon!
Karl Voit
in reply to David Wilson • • •In short, my current approach:
no NEXT any more, just TODO/STARTED/WAITING/<closed>
TODO tasks with no SCHEDULED and tagged :someday: > long list or not relevant tasks right now; need to deliberately schedule again in order to see them on my agenda
TODO tasks SCHEDULED: optionally: prio and/or tag :focus: (= the old NEXT status tasks)
no blocked time-slots for tasks (I've never tried it so far, to be honest)
HTH
Karl Voit
in reply to Karl Voit • • •Oh, and the most probably best part of my method: excessive use of task dependencies where the next tasks get scheduled and an active todo keyword automatically:
karl-voit.at/2019/11/03/org-pr…
karl-voit.at/2016/12/18/org-de…
karl-voit.at/2021/01/23/org-li… (-> I'm a heavy-user of that)
So my project tasks "organize" themselves when #orgedna dependencies are defined.
UOMF: On How to Define Projects in Org Mode
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