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

[Carl Worth]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:50:39 -0700, Alan Schussman wrote:
> Seth Falcon wrote:
> 
> > One simplification to consider: make the default to assign nil date to 
> > new tasks created with C-c C-t.

+1

> Discovering this really improved the way I use planner, too. It had 
> never occurred to me to plot out a whole set of tasks, and then 
> incrementally assign them dates, partly because planner seemed so 
> insistent that I give dates to tasks when I create them (and, perhaps, 
> because that's the model of so many other planning tools that don't 
> separate projects from days).

With me it was just the reverse. I knew I wanted to d "write tasks
first, schedule later", and I've been avoiding planner-mode specifically
for its insistence on making me feed it dates.

-Carl