[Vimoutliner] Re: VimOutliner as a task manager?

[Bill Powell]

Hi Kyle!

As I mentioned earlier on this list, I'm (still) working on
VimPim, which will tie VimOutliner to the calendar.vim
plugin and a couple of other things so you can track
all your projects from within Vim. Hopefully that'll be out
soon and you can take a look, though it's more involved than
what you're describing. (For instance, you'll be able to
track actual time spent on projects, as with tt or karm.) 

In the meantime, you could always just fold a completed task
and paste it into, say, "done.otl". Or sometimes I fold a
task and paste it at the bottom of the file, under a
top-level heading like "DONE." If you're using it to manage
_all_ your tasks, I imagine that the file would grow too
large to handle quickly, even if you used a syntax file to
magically fold and hide it. 

Another option, if you want to maintain the "structure" of
your tasks, is to move each completed task into its own
file in the same dir as your main "tasks.otl". Then just
include the name of that file, and with gf you can quickly
open it if you ever want to look at it. For example:

[ ] Tie shoes.
[ ] Read entire Vim help.
  [X] Learn :h command.
  [ ] Everything else.
[ ] Eat breakfast.

After you read the rest of Vim help, this snippet:

[X] Read entire Vim help.
  [X] Learn :h command.
  [X] Everything else.

could be moved to read-vim-help.otl, and you could now have:

[ ] Tie shoes.
read-vim-help.otl
[ ] Eat breakfast.

And gf anywhere on that filename would take you to
read-vim-help.otl.

Just a thought.

Bill Powell

+++ Kyle Sexton [15/10/07 16:16 -0500]:
>    Is anyone using VimOutliner for a task manager?  It seems that the check
>    boxes are ideally suited to this type of use.  I can't seem to figure out
>    how to "archive" or "hide" tasks that I've completed though.  After using
>    this for awhile I'd think the completed tasks would start to build up. 
>    I'd rather not just delete them, because having a reference to doing
>    something is useful as well.
> 
>    Thoughts, or are you handling this a different way?
> 
>    --
>    Kyle Sexton

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