[emacs-wiki-discuss] planner task syntax

[Torsten Anders]

Dear all,

Like many others, I was looking for some better way to organise my 
workload and I ran into planner. I am a total newbie and this is my 
first post to this list.

I spend several hours so far reading various related docs but still 
found no answer to rather basic
questions. Please forgive if I missed something obvious.

I like the idea of a planner for Emacs because everything is a text 
file and I hope I can manually edit my plans etc. I only mention that 
to motivate my questions. OK, here we go.

Does there exist some doku which explains the syntax for a planner task 
(i.e. a task in the TaskPool) somewhat formally? What form must a task 
have to be automatically bi-directionally linked/linkable to other 
pages (e.g. the page of today).  I would like to be able to manually 
edit the task and have changes always reflected by the linked page 
(required use of an ID is fine).

What kind of pages can be linked such that edits are reflected 
automatically? The usual case is some date (like today). However, I 
would like to organise my plans, for example, in larger time frames 
like having as link [[May.2006]]. I once succeeded in creating such a 
task and editing the task was then reflected in the file/buffer 
May.2006. Still, I couldn't reproduce that :-/

Can a task exceed multiple lines?

Must the link always be the last token of a task? For example, when I 
had some text after that link, this text was skipped on the linked 
page.

Thank you very much! Sorry, if the number of questions exceed what is 
allowed in a single post..

Best,
Torsten

PS: I just installed planner version 3.40 (i.e. based on muse).

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Torsten Anders
Sonic Arts Research Centre
Queen's University Belfast (UK)
www.torsten-anders.de