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Comment author: jmmcd 25 October 2010 10:56:58AM 0 points [-]

This sounds a lot like org-mode. "Read" and "call someone" are implemented as tags, which can be added to any item, and there's a command to extract all items marked as "call someone" so you can do all your calls together.

The separation between short-term and long-term tasks doesn't (as far as I know) exist in org-mode, but it makes a lot of sense. I have a huge wishlist of things I want to do eventually, some of which are partially done, and they drown out the real TODOs. So I need to figure out a way to hide everything marked "long-term", or perhaps equivalently, export a list of just the "short-term" items.

Comment author: Relsqui 25 October 2010 06:02:20PM 0 points [-]

Yeah. It looked like it might be similar, but poking around on their site I didn't notice a really good "summary of what using this is like." I'm not particularly interested in relearning emacs for an organization tool, anyway, though. My ridiculously overscripted program of choice is irssi. ;)