[Vimoutliner] Re: VimOutliner as a task manager?

[Bill Powell]

+++ Steve Litt [17/10/07 15:15 -0400]:
> On Wednesday 17 October 2007 10:37, Noel Henson wrote:
> > On Monday 15 October 2007, Bill Powell wrote:
> > > 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.)
> >
> > Bill,
> >
> > Here is my VimPim setup. The calendar window and outline window are
> > cross-connected with some scripting.
> >
> > Noel

Thanks, Noel! Yes, that's pretty much how my current VimPim
setup looks too. When you hit a day in the Calendar, it
jumps to the corresponding spot in a VO file. 

What I've added so far:
	- syntax highlighting for: 
			dates
			*todo items
			embedded links (like http://vimoutliner.org or /home/user/thisfile.txt )
				I plan to bundle utl.vim so you can jump to these.			

What I'm working on:
	- that project timer I mentioned
	For instance, here are some entries in my "pim" file for
	this week:

		'email	work	00:09	2007-10-15 08:50:00	2007-10-15 08:59:59
		'project_timer	contrib	00:21	2007-10-15 09:00:00	2007-10-15 09:21:38
			: Notes here.
			Or even VO headings.
				: With notes.
		'nosql	contrib	00:23	2007-10-15 09:24:32	2007-10-15 09:47:36
		'finances	wineskin	00:08	2007-10-15 09:48:38	2007-10-15 09:57:28

	It looks a lot better with syntax highlighting. ;)
 
	I currently have mappings so you can quickly start a task
and end a task (which calculates the interval spent), as
well as recalculate an interval if you need to change the
times.
	I'm also using xautolock to record the time if I'm idle
for more than 5 minutes, so I don't lose track if I forget
to stop a task (like karm).

	Idea is to be able to track your work in a VO file while
also being able to make notes.
	Then parse the file into a nosql table (also with syntax
highlighting) so you can quickly anaylze how much time
you've spent on each project.

 - I'd also a way to get the functionality with Calendar.vim
without having to bundle a tweaked version of it (that might
break on an upgrade). 

 - Since I just found out about todo.sh from todotxt.com on
this list, and am quite excited about it, I'm wondering
about integrating that too. It might be faster to use that
CLI approach to start and stop tasks.

Anyhow, Noel, that's neat that you already have the basic
calendar+VO functionality.

> 
> Is VimPim free software? 

It will be.

> If so, where do I get it?
> 
> SteveT

Maybe Noel already has something to post; I'm afraid what I
have right now might be a little messy to post publicly.
Unless anyone wants to help. :) Then I could set up a beta
page on my site. 

Bill

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