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From: khi at users.sourceforge.jp (khi at users.sourceforge.jp)
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:22:14 +0900
Subject: [Howm-eng 8] Re: Howto sort todo list
Message-ID: <m3wtlm2r49.wl@telperion.i>

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