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[Orgmode] Re: Request for suggestions about best practices: tracking res


From: Sébastien Vauban
Subject: [Orgmode] Re: Request for suggestions about best practices: tracking responses
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:08:35 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

Hi Robert,

Robert Goldman wrote:
> Often now I have org-mode tasks that I move to WAIT status when I send
> someone an email to get some next step done.

I do that as well. Though, I'm still testing what my own process must be like.


> The problem is that I have a hard time getting back to those tasks when
> I get a response email (or phone call).
>
> There is nothing salient about these that means that when I get a
> response email, I see the task and can mark it as completed.
>
> Does anyone have a good solution for this?
>
> I have a hazy idea that always having a special agenda window open with
> a special agenda display of tasks awaiting responses might do the trick,
> but few ideas about how to accomplish this in practice.  Presumably a
> special TODO status for awaiting response, and special agenda view...
> does that sound reasonable?  I notice that the manual refers to "THE
> agenda."  Is it possible to have multiple agenda windows so that I could
> always have the "waiting for response" agenda up w/o cutting off my
> access to other views?

As far as I fully understand your request, what you need is a custom agenda
report:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
      '(("W" "Waiting"
         todo "WAIT" nil)))
#+END_SRC
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sébastien Vauban




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