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(setq planner-sort-tasks-key-function 'planner-sort-tasks-by-score)

(defvar planner-score-rules '(("read" . 50))
  "Alist of planner scoring rules of the form (regexp . score-value).
Tasks with higher scores are listed first.")

(defun planner-sort-tasks-by-score ()
  "Sort tasks by the rule in the table."
  (let ((score 0)
        (case-fold-search t)
        (line (buffer-substring-no-properties (line-beginning-position)
                                              (line-end-position))))
    (mapc
     (lambda (item)
       (when (string-match (car item) line)
         (setq score (- score (cdr item)))))
     planner-score-rules)
    score))

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• 2011: On friendship and becoming more social — I’ve been talking to people about my project of becoming more social, getting better at connecting. It makes sense. I [...]
• 2010: It’s not what you can’t write, it’s what you need to share — We like scaring ourselves out of complex opportunities. Take sharing, for example. Sharing too much online can backfire badly, so [...]
• 2007: Barter Network Toronto — An article in the Small Business magazine led me to Barter Network, a Toronto-based business-to-business trade exchange that’s definitely worth checking out. I’ve [...]
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• 2005: Brilliant idea about my summer schedule — I need to hack a couple of things in Adphoto. For one, the scheduling system needs to be improved. Also, we [...]
• 2005: [Abrams, 1997] Abrams, D. (1997). Human factors of personal web information spaces. Technical report, Knowledge Media Design Institute Technical Report 1, University of Toronto. — http://www.dabrams.com/research/bookmarks/thesis/thesis.pdf “Human factors of personal web information spaces” is a detailed statistical study of how people use bookmarks, including observations on filing and [...]
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