Gregor,
First off, thank you for the Org Add note. I am embarrassed I did not know about it, it is *exactly* what I want. Thanks! I will add it into a blog post on my workflow when I go over contact management since I have to admit, I googled quite a bit to find something and did not run across org-add note until you mentioned it. Thank you.
As for Chase and Gave on my TODO states, these were originally WAIT and GAVE for tasks I needed to chase people - I manage a large team that is cross company so have numerous stakeholders and often off a mail or other task have to chase someone for something they were either supposed to get to me to make one of my deadlines or something else I need to make sure is progressing or actually happened. I assign a deadline to that wait state after I've executed something.
Subtly different is when I delegate something completely to one of my reports (or another VP/ BU Head), and I give that a GAVE delegated state with a DEADLINE on it in order to follow up or expect something being done. The idea there is that I followup at that time expectint the thing to be done or as a check-in towards an agreed completion date. It also helps when I go over my 1:1s with them to understand what is on their plate.
I was going to try to use org-habit as you suggest so interested in greater detail around rthe "clumsines you mention. I often use week tags ie. 'w15' being this week, so that I can add that to some more random or automated followups since it is a matter of making sure I do ping someone once in a while rather than specific scheduled things. So, record a note, CTRL-c-q the tag from the contact week like w15 to w19 or such and then it shows up in the org-super-agenda-view I crafted on my weekly todo tasks rather than a specific deadline or such. Do you think that may work less clumisnly than org-habit? (I know what you mean, I used org-habit in my last run at habit tracking in org-mode but gave up and started using the excellent habitctl command line tracker. Check it out, though it is not appropriate to this task.).
Let me know if you want more detail on the above. The crafted super-agenda view is what makes this work well since I have it auto sort the view to give me todo items that are tagged for this week, but do not show up in the agenda as they have dates attached through deadlines or schedules. So far, so good on it working, but only crafted the view on the plane on Sunday so need to see if this will work better than what I was doing before. =]
thanks again for the Add Note hint! I cannot believe that that did not come up in my searches on how to do this. Very handy!
Daryl.
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1. Logging :LOGBOOK: entries to a heading in org-mode without
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 22:46:42 +0700
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I have org-mode set up at the moment to log changes in my TODO states (at
the moment, TODO, CHASE, GAVE, KILL, DONE) as well as deadline changes and
reschedules into a logbook drawer. That's working great.
However, I have begun using org-contacts as an ersatz CRM for myself and
keeping track of mails, meets, and other administrivia tracking people I'm
interacting with.
I'd love to have a way to as easily use something CTRL-C-T and then have
the ability to log an item into a Logbook drawer under each heading name.
Is there a way to do this easily without hacking TODO states? Or are there
other ways people are doing this to achieve the same goal (I'm also hoping
to set PING deadlines on people so that I am making sure to recontact them
at various intervals over time, but still trying to puzzle that out... =]
).
Would love to know what other people have done with this that is
lightweight and practical.
thanks!
Daryl.
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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 09:01:07 +0200
From: Gregor Zattler <address@hidden>
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Hi Daryl,
* Daryl Manning <address@hidden> [2019-04-08; 22:46]:
> I have org-mode set up at the moment to log changes in my TODO states (at
> the moment, TODO, CHASE, GAVE, KILL, DONE) as well as deadline changes and
would you please elaborate on the semantics of these (esp. chase,
gave)?
> reschedules into a logbook drawer. That's working great.
>
> However, I have begun using org-contacts as an ersatz CRM for myself and
> keeping track of mails, meets, and other administrivia tracking people I'm
> interacting with.
>
> I'd love to have a way to as easily use something CTRL-C-T and then have
> the ability to log an item into a Logbook drawer under each
> heading name.
There's org-add-note, bound by default to C-c C-z, which does
exactly that. It even works from the agenda.
> Is there a way to do this easily without hacking TODO states? Or are there
> other ways people are doing this to achieve the same goal (I'm also hoping
> to set PING deadlines on people so that I am making sure to recontact them
> at various intervals over time, but still trying to puzzle that out... =]
> ).
I tried to use org-habit for this, but it gets clumsy, if you
want to contact somebody round about every 60 days or so.
Ciao; Gregor
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