Re: Manual Ordering and Dynamic Priority

[indieterminacy]

Hello Eduardo,

On 31-08-2022 18:13, Eduardo Suarez wrote:
> I have lots of tasks (todos) and I would like to create a long backlog 
> based on
> my perceived priority.
>
> I was thinking to deal with them in the following way:
>
> - divide them in groups (categories or similar),
> - manually sort priority for every group,
> - mergesort groups, that is, start merging groups in pairs, and 
> manually sort
>   for every step the union group until I have a large sorted backlog.
>
> For this to be practical, I would need an easy way to sort manually a 
> group of
> tasks and get them assigned automatically a priority (or any other 
> hack) so
> that priority ordering matches manual ordering.
>
> Any idea about how to get this done?

While these are non orgmode solutions inside Emacs I hope they can give 
you some ideas of what you want:

https://github.com/sp1ff/elfeed-score
https://www.unwoundstack.com/blog/scoring-elfeed-entries.html

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Scoring.html


> If I had to implement it (I don't know lisp), I would assign a property 
> (say
> BACKLOG_PRIORITY) for every new task, with value the higher value of 
> any other
> tasks in agenda plus ten (for instance). Then I would query a subset of 
> tasks
> and sort them manually, swapping their values every time I swap their 
> order. I
> would also allow to assign a value directly based on free slots, not to 
> bubble
> the whole list for a low priority task.
>
> Does it sound over-engineered? Any idea?

HTH

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Jonathan McHugh
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