[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Making planner simpler

[Sacha Chua]

"Raymond Zeitler" <address@hidden> writes:

> The web page you refer isn't what I'd hit prospective Planner users
> with initially.  Instead, I recommend the Quick Start Guide, which

Hmm, that's interesting. Okay, so we're dealing with several types of
newbies here.

- People who are new to planning and don't have a specific methodology yet:
  point them to PlannerModeCommentary / PLANNER-README / GTD stuff

- People who just want the basics: PlannerModeQuickStart.

- People who have a particular way of planning in mind and wonder if
  other people have done it: perhaps PlannerModeMethods, in the
  future. Not a newbie document.

I also strongly recommend that newbies (and everyone, really) post
their thoughts and questions on this mailing list, as planner does
more than what is officially documented. Perhaps we can eventually put
together a FAQ...

(For example: "Do I really need to use Gnus, w3m, ERC, and all of
these other Emacs stuff?")

> I don't think newbies need to be "protected" or "sheltered" from plan
> pages.  The feature is well-documented.  But thanks for the warning!

Mmkay. I was just thinking about the fact that you can't manually edit
tasks yet...

> I hope you make it into MIT.  Then you'll only be about two hours away
> from us, and you can give us Planner presentations in your spare time!

<laugh> That would be cool. I've filed my application to the Media Lab
and I hope my teachers submit their recommendations on time.

Speaking of planner presentations, I have "Taming the TODO" up at
http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/presentations/20041113-taming-the-todo.pdf
http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/presentations/20041113-taming-the-todo.sxi
http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/presentations/20041113-taming-the-todo.ppt
http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/presentations/20041113-taming-the-todo.swf

It was a presentation on general personal information management. I
haven't gotten around to converting it to prose. Next time, I really
should just record presentations...

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