sacha chua living an awesome life

I have settled onto a combination of Tasks for my task management, Evernote for my inbox, and a custom M-x remember hook for quickly chunking thoughts from Emacs into Evernote. Then, when I process my inbox at the end of the day, I can enter tasks into Tasks using templates, deadlines, etc. It supports emailing you your agenda each day, tagging tasks, time tracking (although I have not explored that bit yet).

I probably shouldn’t even say this out loud but i’m in the planning stages of a iphone app that I hope will get us started with org on the iphone. Baby steps! I hope to have the preliminary plans to the list later this week.

Greg, if you produce an iPhone app that can access and manipulate an emacs org-mode file I will bear your children. And I’m a guy, so producing kids is a non-trivial engineering challenge for me.

I already have Things and Omnifocus for the iPhone but I’d snap up a good org-mode iPhone app in a heartbeart.

Sacha, how’s that “Wicked Cool Emacs” book coming along?

for the iPhone -> Org-Mode

combination, please have a look, in the Org-Mode ML, at the thread:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2009-03/msg00534.html

there’s a solution exploiting reQcall.

or its alternatives, for non US/Canada/UK people ;-) i.e.:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2009-04/msg00044.html

I’ve used RTM, org-mode, and now evernote. Now I read your post and I have to look at toodledo and reconsider org-mode. Plus James has me reconsidering going from emacs to komodo. You guys are killing me!

Hm, seems I found this post a bit late.

I’ve been thinking about how to integrate org-mode with my Android phone for a while now and I think the best option for me is to code org-mode integration with RTM, since there’s a todo manager for android called Astrid which already offers RTM integration.

Interestingly there’s already a common-lisp API for RTM: http://code.google.com/p/rtm-lisp-api/

And it looks like just one function (ok, the central one) would have to be ported/rewritten to elisp.

Not promising anything in the near future, though!

How about using one of these services that lets you share files over the web and use them just as if they are on your local disk? That is what I do for my writing. (I am using org-mode often there, but just do not ask me for GTD – I don’t have time for GTD…)

Absolutely.. I’m hooked onto org now :)

btw, I found Dropbox to be a neat & easy way to sync my .org files
(across all 3 types of OS’s)

hth

Somethig more difficult to setup but in the end easy to use is this one for android: I use a debian image on the sdcard to chroot in. there I can use emacs on my phone . No – I’m not completly mad :-)
Sure, the C-X C-C M-S-a stuff would be a pain on a mini touch screen keyboard – but – we have a solution: The Org-speed commands. I tried it this week and it seams to work very well.
This way I can use single key strokes like in vim for my org-mode files.

If I have a PROJECT in org-mode and several TODO sub-tasks under that project, in agenda views (global todo), the project and its sub-tasks are displayed but there are no way to tell (visually) which ones belong to the project, e.g.
PROJECT The project
TODO Sub-task 1
TODO Sub-task 2
TODO Not a sub-task

Do you know how to configure org-mode to show some kind of visual indication? Something like this
PROJECT The project
TODO _Sub-task 1
TODO _Sub-task 2
TODO Not a sub-task

(note the _ characters)
Thanks!

Hi sacha, I’d like to see more posts on how you are using org-mode and how you are organizing your tasks, if you have time, please, share with us.

Thanks,
Flávio.