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Re: [Orgmode] Re: When is a TODO really a TODO ? ...


From: Richard G Riley
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Re: When is a TODO really a TODO ? ...
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:25:36 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50.6 (gnu/linux)

Bastien <address@hidden> writes:

> "Eddward DeVilla" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Maybe this would help make the examples even more clearer.  This is
>>> especially crucial when if comes to complex agenda searches.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> What about if a task is not a task?  What if it's a person, a
>> reservation, an event or some other thing to be organized?

"to be organized" - implying "task" to be undertaken.

>
> The purpose of "task" was to find a replacement for "TODO item".
>
> There are many occurrences of "TODO item" or "TODO entry" in the manual,
> and "task" is better because it's more general.  

I agree. A task is an org-item with a status applied from a sequence of task
statuses.

tasks generally progress from an initial state to a completion state


>
> Of course it is not perfect, and no replacement would be, because it is
> impossible to capture all possible uses for an entry in a single word...
> but in the lack of better alternatives, I think it's okay, especially if
> we dedicate a "Writing conventions" section at the beginning of the
> manual, explaining both the scope and the limitation of conventions
> (like using "tasks" for headlines that have a keyword).
>
>> We need to make sure we keep is easy cases easy.  I don't think
>> incremental discoveries after that are a bad thing.
>
> Yes, precisely.  This is why all these possible conventions have to be
> carefully and gradually implemented, so that we can check new Org users
> don't get lost.




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