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by ArdentZeal 2698 days ago
I had to google that and I am still not sure I found the right thing :)

So let me maybe clarify the algorithm running a bit. Im trying to pull in as much information for a task as I can reasonably get. One important information source is the things you as user give me voluntarily, e.g. and end date, a location, shared users, ... Then there is information a user gives me kind of by accident as in "how long has this task been unfulfilled in your list?" A third information source is correlated data from the internet, like the distance to a location and the opening times of said location if applicable.

I use all this information (if you give me access to) correlate them with the same information of your other tasks and some common sense, put in a tablespoon of salt and pepper and stir for about 2 and a half minutes. Out of that falls a priority sorted list ==> chaoslist

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Org-mode is a really powerful tool for todos in the emacs text editor. It's totally convoluted though and hard to get in to.

It allows for quick sorting, schedules, deadlines and importance. You can than display an calendar/agenda view or sort by importance.

Mushing all you can get together to do the hierarchy sounds awesome. So you basically can do the GTD-Method automatically :). Org-mode does not do that (but who knows, usually there is some plugin doing it :) )

Mildly important, can be done right here and little effort: do next. Very important, can't be done here, not urgent: later. Right?

You are correct, that is basically what it boils down to. :)