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Not long ago I ran across Charles Cave’s description of using emacs for gtd. That’s Getting Things Done by the way. I’ve co-opted that particular system and have quickly become a fan of it. Previously I used a similar method to Federico.

Emacs is particularly well suited to this sort of thing. If this interests you at all you should read through Charles’ workflow. I only use a subset of what he does (I don’t need to print it out, etc) and I’ve tweaked the org-mode settings just a tad to suit me. If you are interested:

;; Standard org stuff
(add-to-list ‘auto-mode-alist ‘(“\\.org$” . org-mode))
(define-key global-map “\C-cl” ‘org-store-link)
(define-key global-map “\C-ca” ‘org-agenda)

; I prefer return to activate a link
(setq org-return-follows-link t)

;;quickly open my gtd file – “M-x gtd ”
(defun gtd ()
(interactive)
(find-file “~/.org/mygtd.org”)
)

(custom-set-faces
‘(org-level-1¹))
‘(org-link²))
)

;;make sure Done items are strikethrough
(setq org-fontify-done-headline t)
(custom-set-faces
‘(org-done³))
‘(org-headline-done
⁴
(:foreground “grey” :strike-through t)))))

1. t (:weight bold :height 1.8 :family “Monaco” [↩]
2. t (:foreground “blue” :underline t [↩]
3. t (:foreground “grey”
   :weight normal
   :strike-through t [↩]
4. ((class color) (min-colors 16) (background dark [↩]