Personal Information Management Conversation related to Emacs org-mode

Source: Excerpts from a conversation with John Wiegley (johnw) and Adam Porter (alphapapa) about personal information management by Sacha Chua

Meeting management

• Auto generate meeting summaries with actions, convert to org-mode files and tagged tasks
• Regularly schedule review of tasks
• Technology:
  • Firefly AI for meeting notes and actions
  • org-mode, org-review, org-roam templates for task management, filters, and schedules

Habits

• Atomic habits: a point is behaviour oriented thinking, habit/system oriented thinking will be more successful than goal oriented thinking in long term. Small incremental work, even 1-5 minutes habit builds success.
• For example, instead of goal to clean office, make habit to clean some clutter each time you take a break
• In summary, form habits to achieve goals
  • Be consistent and be ok with occasionally not doing a habit

Task Views

Reports could be:

• Scheduled tasks for a date like today
• High priority / need to be done task
• Tasks without planning date
• Tasks by project

Searches could be using org-ql, a search tool for org-mode

Can use checkers to ensure data is correct like:

• org-lint
• Custom linters with personal rules