Those things are added at the end of the LOGBOOK, instead of at the beginning.
This does not help, I would rather like to have those things being added as if I
would have taken a note on the currently clocked-in task. Indeed, this is what
I have been doing instead of using those capture template, which is why this
commit removes them.
The reason to keep this off was that my solarized-theme did not have support for
this. Since I have hacked this support together on my own now, I can (and
should) also use it!
Enabling hl-line-mode globally causes undesired and disruptive highlighting
effects in buffers such as eshell. Enabling it in prog-mode and text-mode
should be fine, though.
Additional modes may be added later.
I do not use the completion provided by company-mode, and sometimes it's even
disruptive during writing. So let's disable it for the time being.
The original reason to keep it activated has been to have completion when
inserting links to local files. This can better be achieved by providing a
universal argument to `org-insert-link`.
This will move lines more to the left when specifying arguments to constructors
or functions on multiple lines. Nested function calls can also be broken into
multiple lines to reduce their overall line width. This looks nicer from my
point of view :)
From my point of view, it does not make much sense anymore to distinguish these
two lists. Reading items should be on the main next action list as regular TODO
items. Indeed, using dedicated READ state does not make much sense either, so
let's remove that one from our capture templates, too, but keep the READ tag for
now. However, we cannot remove it from the keyword list for now as we are still
using it in some old items.
When keeping old links around, it may happen that adding another link is already
present in `org-stored-links`. In that case, only a message is displayed (“This
link already exists”), but the link itself is not pushed to the front of the
link history. A subsequent insertion of the link then requires manual selection
of the desired target, resulting in massive interruptions of the current flow.
This is the current default value from Org mode. It also makes more sense for
my workflows, as those searches usually are meant to be worked upon, and
sorting by priority helps to find the most relevant items on those lists.
Topics are reviewed regularly (e.g, every month), so having a readily available
agenda view helps here. It's also easier, I think, to keep an overview over all
active topics if they are easily accessible in a custom agenda view.
Things to refile should not be shown on the main agenda, as this view is only
meant to show open tasks. Indeed, if to-be-refiled items are already done, they
should not be here for exactly that reason; and if they are not done yet, then
they will show up in the Next Action list anyway.
Bringing items to their (supposedly) correct location is not part of doing the
item, it's part of cleaning up (e.g., while doing the weekly review).
Emptying the refile file should still be done regularly, though, i.e., every
day (via a daily review) or weekly (in the weekly review).
Those files are specific for each machine where Emacs is running and change
often, and should not be included as private configuration files. Indeed, those
files might be versioned (e.g., using git) and deploying those versioned
configuration files over multiple machines would cause a number of conflicts if
Gnus' local mail files would be included as well (as has happend to me). Since
those machine-specific files are not really relevant for other machines, keeping
them somewhere else is reasonable. The new default is $HOME/.config/gnus-news.
Note that the main gnus-newsrc file is still kept as private configuration file.
Those tags are meant to mark the current headline (and nothing below) as either
just a headline (via NOP, i.e., no projects) or as a topic (i.e., a general
obligation and not a concrete thing to achieve).
This tells `org-set-tags-command` to not clear the NOP tag if it's available
somewhere at a parent node – a thing `org-set-tags-command` apparently seems to
be doing in general to keep the tags hierarchy clean.
To mark whole projects as SOMEWHEN may further declutter the main project list.
To not loose sight of those SOMEWHEN projects, however, they are not explicitly
shown in the SOMEWHEN list.
The SCHEDULED entry for projects (not for their respective tasks) is now used to
move currently irrelevant projects out of sight, and schedule them for later
resubmission. Indeed, those projects will reappear on the main project list
when the SCHEDULED date is due.
plantuml-mode derives from prog-mode, which in my coniguration automatically
activates subword-mode. However, as plantuml uses barewords as strings, those
are rarely meant to be in camel-case (indeed, typos are much more common) and
subword-mode is more distracting than helpful.
In general, all tasks of the previous week should still be present in this week
and the week before, so there's no need to activate archive mode by default. If
it's necessary after all, it can be activated manually.
This only means to wrap a `use-package` around the variable settings, but since
I may be playing around with this in the future, it's better to visually group
this configuration already now.
It's easier for the weekly review to see only those items that were closed, as
those may still have pending actions that need to be captured. Items not yet
closed are still available on the calendar, on the Next Action list, or
elsewhere.
We only ignored future items so far, but those that are scheduled today or in
the past are also in our focus (i.e., our the daily agenda). So let's not show
those as well.
This is the same sorting as it is used in the Next Action list, and should
provide a better overview over the current items on the Waiting-For list.
Formatted the value for `org-agenda-sorting-strategy` on one line for better
readability, and also changed that for the definition of the Next Action list.
The Read capture template did not properly ask for the topic and did not have a
placement indicator for the cursor, fixed that. The Response capture template
now has a “Reply ” action word to indicate the proper action, and also has a
placement indicator in it. This way, it should be easier to use these capture
templates.
As with the next action list, it's better to keep the reading list in sight so
that when I decide what to do next, it's there and showing me all the
possibilities.
At work, I am using the category to record the cost centers of the corresponding
actions. Maybe sorting the next action list gives a better understanding of the
overall set of actions by clustering them by category?
I somehow have the feeling that my next action list is not “present” enough and
so I am afraid to miss things. As an experiments, let's try to display the next
action list in the main agenda view to always have it in sight.
In that case, I sometimes want to add extra information, like scheduling a
date or adding extra references. This is not easily possible when the capture
is closed immediately.
Daniel -
Daniel Borchmann