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I was actually pretty happy with Org mode except that one teeeny problem of it being only really usable in Emacs as everything else using that format missed thi
by ilyt 3y ago
I was actually pretty happy with Org mode except that one teeeny problem of it being only really usable in Emacs as everything else using that format missed this or that feature that I wanted/used.
> Thank you. This killed all my attempts at planning using Org Mode and agenda views. I'd schedule a few things for the day, and then invariably fail to do half of them, and then they would show up on next day's agenda, sorting above that day's planned tasks, and displayed with emphasis. This was both distracting and created an "emotional repulsion field" for the agenda view, leading to more tasks not completed, and a week down the line, my agenda view would have 20+ items due days ago.
org-mode kinda worked for me. It had SCHEDULED and DEADLINE types, first being basically "when I can start doing something" (maintenance etc.), second being "when I NEED to do it" (pay bills etc). Sometimes both.
I didn't use timestamps at all for most tasks, just priority, those were basically mostly for long term stuff or monthly-repeatable
> But this didn't help anything - soon enough, I'd be staring at an incoming blast wave of random uncompleted tasks, which I then had to push back again some more. The system eventually collapsed under the emotional weight.
That just sounds like amount of tasks was higher than time available, no system gonna fix that.
I actually found the org-mode showing how many times a given scheduled date was missed was fair indicator whether to look at that task or whether it should be there at all.