EmacsConf 2019 - 09 - Managing your life with org-mode and other tools - Marcin Swieczkowski
Channel: EmacsConf and Emacs hangouts
Date: 25/11/2019

You can watch this video using free software at: https://media.emacsconf.org/2019/09.html
Download (720p): https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/emacsconf/2019/emacsconf-2019-09-managing-your-life-with-org-mode--Marcin.webm
Slides: https://bytedude.com/files/managing-your-life-with-org-mode.html

Description:
If you’ve tried various systems for managing your time you may have found them to be too complicated, too inflexible, or just too much work. org-mode and org-agenda in particular have a lot of features and can be overwhelming to get started with. However, using only a subset of their features they can still be flexible, simple, and powerful. This talk will provide you with some tools and ideas for creating a simple system catered to your needs, with a full demonstration of how I use these tools myself. We’ll be going over org-mode and org-agenda as well as some configuration which makes them easier to use, after which we’ll cover third-party packages and tools such as org-recur (written by the author), org-super-agenda, git, and more.

Notes from the pad:
  • slides: https://www.bytedude.com/files/managing-your-life-with-org-mode.html
  • repository + org file: https://github.com/m-cat/managing-your-life-with-org-mode
  • using a single Org mode file: `todo.org'
  • not using `TODO' keyword
    • he was forgetting to mark tasks as `TODO'
    • `TODO' headings scattered around all org files
  • how does he get items to his agenda?
    • schedule it
    • deadlines are hard deadlines
    • daily agenda shows scheduled items, not `TODO' items
  • strict heading hierarchy for his items
  • on finishing a recurring task - re-schedule
  • [org-super-agenda] (https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda)
  • categories within property drawers
  • [org-recur] (https://github.com/m-cat/org-recur)
    • defining recurrence delta for single tasks
    • visual cue on the recurring delta on the agenda
    • provides more flexible recurrence config like wkdy - not supported in ord-schedule
  • git
    • reviewing commits on a weakly basis
  • bonus: misc tools on the slides (not mentioned live)
  • https://github.com/m-cat/init.el
  • https://bytedude.com/

  related:
  • https://karl-voit.at/2019/09/25/categories-versus-tags
  • https://karl-voit.at/2017/01/15/org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift/
  • https://karl-voit.at/2014/08/20/org-losses-determining-post-commit/