Re: [O] TODO items in lists (not headings)

[Subhan Michael Tindall]

Lists are very explicitly not intended to contain TODO items.

Checkboxes provide a bit of this functionality, sort of a ‘TODO lite’

I use something like this quite a lot:

** TODO notes from meeting        :meeting:steve:susan:jane:bob:action:

   DEADLINE: <2014-09-19 Fri>

   :PROPERTIES:

   :LastWorked: [2014-09-18 Thu 09:14]

  :END:

- Item 1

- Item 2

- [ ] action item 1

  - [X] sub action item

  - [ ] sub action item 2

- Item 3

extended meeting notes here

 

I’ve not used them at all, but there may be a way to set a statistics cookie for the headline, or if not a simple function to update a statistics-type cookie or property when an action item changes state

 

I do sometimes wish that I could include a TODO headline or tag a list item, but that is simply not possible under current implementations.

IE something like this:

** meeting

- TODO Item 1 tags: “tag1:tag2” LastWorked: [2014-09-18 Thu 09:14]

- item 2

 

With properties etc. handled in a way similar to BEGIN_SRC block headers

 

The problem is that list items/checkbox items are NOT headlines, and all the TODO code etc. is tied to headlines.

 

I haven’t looked at the code but I suspect an extensive rewrite to integrate it with the rest of the headline code.  Not as much if it’s kept as an isolated extension.

 

 

 

From: emacs-orgmode-bounces+address@hidden [mailto:emacs-orgmode-bounces+address@hidden On Behalf Of Gary Oberbrunner
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 5:45 AM
To: Orgmode Mailing List
Subject: Re: [O] TODO items in lists (not headings)

 

 

 

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Thomas S. Dye <address@hidden> wrote:

Aloha Gary,

Gary Oberbrunner <address@hidden> writes:

> Gary:
>   My reason for not using TODO is just that it'd be ugly and confusing to
> put a heading in the middle of a list.
>
>   Compare this:
> * Meeting report
> ** Meeting 1
>   - a thing that happened
>   - another thing that happened
>   - TODO: email everyone about all the things
>   - some more things that happened
>
>   to this:
> * Meeting report
> ** Meeting 1
>   - a thing that happened
>   - another thing that happened
> ***TODO: email everyone about all the things
>   - some more things that happened

One solution is to use a capture template for TODO items and then refile
them.  I picked this up from Bernt Hansen and like it a lot:

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Capture

 

Wow, that guy is serious!  I don't think his setup solves what I'm looking for, but there is so much great stuff in there it'll take me weeks to check it all out.

 

--
Gary

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