2007-11-30 Org Mode for Todo Lists

We’ve been keeping little Todo Lists written on paper all over the place. Let’s see whether I manage to migrate them to OrgMode. I think the paper trail will remain important, specially if Claudia and I are to work together on some of these items. The most important thing was therefore to recreate that piece-of-paper look using CSS.

Claudia

Example:

-*- mode: org; -*-
#+TITLE:     TODO
#+AUTHOR:    Alex Schroeder
#+EMAIL:     alex@gnu.org
#+LANGUAGE:  de
#+OPTIONS:   num:nil toc:nil

	Mooch Bücher abschicken
	* TODO Fools
	* TODO Ghostwritten
	COMMENT HTML style specifications


.todo           TODO keywords
.done           the DONE keyword
.timestamp      time stamp
.timestamp-kwd  keyword associated with a time stamp, like SCHEDULED
.tag            tag in a headline
.target         target for links

1. Local Variables:
1. org-export-html-style: "   <style type=\"text/css\">
1.       .todo, .author, .date { display: none; }
1.       h2, h3 { font-size: inherit; margin: 0; }
1.       h3:before { content: \"• \"; }
1.       h3 { font-weight: inherit; padding-left: 1em; }
1.       h4:before { content: \"· \"; }
1.       h4 { font-weight: inherit; padding-left: 2em; }
1.       p { margin: 0; padding-left: 2em; }
1.   </style>"
1. End:

Result:

TODO

Mooch Bücher abschicken

• Fools

• Ghostwritten

Update*: This is what it looks like three weeks later:

The original printout is full of handwritten notes

My brain just doesn’t work that way.

#Emacs

Comments

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Maybe the architecture OrgMode runs on, Emacs, is not suitable. Perhaps you and Claudia need a Web-based bug database system and replace the piece of paper with a tablet computer that can access it. :-P

Web-based bug database system

– AaronHawley 2007-12-21 19:29 UTC

AaronHawley

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Hahaha. I think requiring a computer that’s always there when we need to jot something down is a show stopper.

It’s a show stopper for our radio & SqueezeBox as well. If my computer is on, I want the box to stream from my iTunes collection. If the computer is off, I want it to connect to the SqueezeNetwork. Since switching takes about half a minute, we rarely do it, and so the box is useless half the time.

SqueezeBox

SqueezeNetwork

At least OrgMode is gratis *and* free. 😄

– Alex Schroeder 2007-12-21 19:59 UTC

Alex Schroeder