Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Planner-Newbie

[Alan Schussman]

Sacha Chua wrote:
> So, everyone:
>
> What's your current killer feature, the reason why you're playing
> around with Planner?
>
> What's your main wishlist feature?

I've really enjoyed the discussion around here the past handful of days; 
it has prompted me to think about my planning AND I have actually been 
pretty productive, too. Seeing my RCS comments pop into my planner when 
I committed some changes to a document totally made my day. Now that was 
cool.

For my part, I have been thinking today of how cool it would be to have 
a dynamic header on my day pages. For instance, when I'm actively 
working on projects TeachPrep and DissSurvey, it would be neat to put 
something like the following in a simple file (a wiki file, why not?):

* Hot projects
- Ongoing: TeachPrep | DissSurvey
- Next week: HolidayShopping

This header could be automatically placed at the top of the page when a 
current day page is updated, giving me a visual (and very quick) link to 
the stuff that I'm actually working on. This way, if all the current 
project-specific tasks get completed but I don't pull a new task from 
the project page (happens all the time), the project itself doesn't 
leave my view. I fake something like this by periodically modifying 
planner-day-page-template, and it works just fine, but doing it 
automatically would make it easier to update the header as I complete 
DissSurvey or finish my shopping: Just do the natural task of changing a 
text file. I wonder if this could be done via something akin to 
planner-insinuate-diary, which updates the display of the day's diary as 
the diary file changes, but only for days that haven't yet passed by. 
This would give the benefit of updating future pages that may be created 
as tasks are given future dates, but not revising past day pages.

That and a firefox extension to blast URLs into a remember buffer, and 
I'd be an even happier planner user.

-Alan