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Re: About priorities of tasks

 

On 15 August 2013 08:52, Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Svenn Are Bjerkem <
> svenn.bjerkem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> What I propose is the idea to add the question mark to lower the
>> priority. In the example above, you can see that the task has had a high
>> priority or importance in the beginning, and then the priority has been
>> pushed back.
>>
>
> I'm open to the sugegstion, and have been thinking myself along this line
> as well. Basically assuming all issues are created equal, but some loosing
> importance over time.
>
> I even thought about using the "?" for that - but I rejected it because I
> also have quite a few action items where the action is a question and a "?"
> naturally occurs in the description. So wondering if we could find another
> notation that is natural but less likely to occur in task descriptions on
> it;s own.
>
> It is often useful, when evaluating execution of projects, to know how
>> items were prioritized.
>>
>
> I usually use sub-bullets to add additional info, follow up comments etc.
> and changes in prio / due date.
>

I didn't think of that problem because I put the question mark in the
sub-bullet annotation of the task.

TODO [d: 2013-08-14] Investigate procrastination of tasks
    * Is this a feature of zim which would be useful?
    * 2013-08-14 Short description of use case posted on mailing list

But you are right, it would be a non-intuitive behaviour of zim.

Workaround could be to use two or more spaces in front of a question mark
which is to be counted.
This questionmark should be made optional and disabled by default. Only if
you know how to use it, it should be used.

-- 
Svenn

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