Usage

As mentioned in the part about notes in Part 1, I've been using unordered lists from the beginning. There are other options for bullets to use with these, but so far I've only been using -.

While it is easy enough to just manually type these out (and I still do some of the time), the thing I have started to do recently is to make use of the keybindings to insert them instead. M-RET will add a new list item if your cursor is already in a list. A typical thing I might then combine with that is M-RIGHT to increase the indent of the new item, to turn it into the start of a sub-list. The only awkwardness then is starting the list, since M-RET will just create a new headline if you aren't already in a list. Technically you could turn that headline into a list item with C-c -, but I always just manually type the dash …

Usage

There are two types of these timestamps that you can give to your agenda items — schedules and deadlines. Schedules are for events that happen at a particular time, or for when you want to set aside time to work on something particular. Deadlines are exactly what they sound like — a date and/or time something is due by. Both of these seem to behave nearly identically, and you can apply either type or both at the same time to an item.

In order to apply one of these timestamps to an item, use C-c C-s for a schedule, or C-c C-d for a deadline. This will open up a little calendar frame, and will request input in the mini-buffer.

This prompt is fairly intelligent about what date and time specifications it will take.

When complete, the result will show up as an all-caps keyword immediately under the headline. It must be the next line, with no other lines between it and …

Usage

To begin with I wanted to break up my items into categories, one category per file. After some waffling, the categories I settled upon for work were:

• devel.org: Every item that is going to involve me personally writing code.
• reviews.org: Coding work owned by other developers, that I need to review or pair with them on.
• watching.org: Items that I want to keep an eye on, but that aren't yet ready to be worked on or prioritized
• professional.org: Professional development, giving talks, mentoring, or other things of that nature.
• other.org: Procedural things that don't comfortably fit in any of the other categories, e.g. talking to IT about problems with one of my accounts.

While I could have just cut and pasted items from my original todo.org file into their respective new files, I wanted something a bit more streamlined. It seemed like the org-refile command (C-c C-w …

Usage

For this first phase, I threw everything together into a single file, called simply todo.org. But since I need to configure autodetection of org …