[Howm-eng 8] Re: Howto sort todo list

[Howm-eng 8] Re: Howto sort todo list

[khi]

Hi.

At Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:08:24 -0500,
xsong at indiana.edu wrote:
> I am a newbie in howm. I want to know whether it is possible to sort my 
> howto list according the importance and how to do it.

This is an experimental code from
<http://howm.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/hiki/hiki.cgi?SortByPriority>.

;; sort todo items according to their priority.
;; [2005-01-16]&3 foobar  ==>  priority = 3
(defun my-explicit-priority (late lazy item)
  (let ((r (or lazy 0)))
    (+ r (* late 0.00001))))
(defface explicit-priority-face '((t (:foreground "cyan"))) "my face")
(setq explicit-priority-face 'explicit-priority-face)
(howm-define-reminder "&" #'my-explicit-priority 'explicit-priority-face nil t t)

But, I believe "priority" in todo list is useless :-p

A typical scenario:
1. Number of todo items increases.
2. Soon, I tend to read "important" items only.
3. Then, I will give a high priority to every new item.
4. Inflation.
5. Ruin.

This is the reason why I dare to remove "priority"
and make such a curious "magic sorting" instead.

Do you have a better idea?

-- 
khi at users.sourceforge.jp

[Howm-eng 9] Re: Howto sort todo list

[xsong]

Thanks. Howm is fantastic.

I am not a lisp programmer. So my idea might be not applicable: provide user 
the function to rearrange the priority number. For example, if someone has 
todo lists with priority number 3,6,20, this function will automatically 
change them to 5,10,15. 

Actually, the user does not care about the number. They only care about the 
order. There is a todo mode in emacs which provides user the opportunity to 
determine the order when inserting new item.

Xianfeng

On 9/12/05, khi at users.sourceforge.jp <khi at users.sourceforge.jp > wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> At Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:08:24 -0500,
> xsong at indiana.edu wrote:
> > I am a newbie in howm. I want to know whether it is possible to sort my
> > howto list according the importance and how to do it.
> 
> This is an experimental code from
> < http://howm.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/hiki/hiki.cgi?SortByPriority>.
> 
> ;; sort todo items according to their priority.
> ;; [2005-01-16]&3 foobar ==> priority = 3
> (defun my-explicit-priority (late lazy item) 
> (let ((r (or lazy 0)))
> (+ r (* late 0.00001))))
> (defface explicit-priority-face '((t (:foreground "cyan"))) "my face")
> (setq explicit-priority-face 'explicit-priority-face)
> (howm-define-reminder "&" #'my-explicit-priority 'explicit-priority-face 
> nil t t) 
> 
> But, I believe "priority" in todo list is useless :-p
> 
> A typical scenario:
> 1. Number of todo items increases.
> 2. Soon, I tend to read "important" items only.
> 3. Then, I will give a high priority to every new item. 
> 4. Inflation.
> 5. Ruin.
> 
> This is the reason why I dare to remove "priority"
> and make such a curious "magic sorting" instead.
> 
> Do you have a better idea?
> 
> --
> khi at users.sourceforge.jp
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