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+title = "The Org Problem"
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+author = ["Colin"]
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+date = 2025-04-11T10:00:00-04:00
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+tags = ["productivity", "tasks", "architecture", "engineering"]
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+categories = ["emacs"]
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+draft = false
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+I am planning to add some hooks to org-mode to allow pushing clock in and clock
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+out events to an external web service.
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+While I was thinking through whether this was worth working on, I realized
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+something about how I approach tasks these days, and there's actually a
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+philosophical component to this work.
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+I love the idea of org-mode; I love org-roam; and I love org tasks. But for
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+personal tasks, so much context and work does not take place in Emacs, having to
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+go back there every time is a lot of work, and things that require a lot of work
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+do not get done often. Context switching should generally be avoided.
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+Thus, I've come to the conclusion that org-mode is acceptable for four contexts:
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+1. computer
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+2. office
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+3. comms (email, phone)
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+4. read (occasionally)
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+The other contexts should go through a more flexible system:
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+1. home
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+2. errands
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+3. anywhere
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+4. read
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+5. agendas
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+The flexible system will vary based on needs, but I have found a functional home
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+in Todoist. It has webhooks for notifications to my time tracking system, easy
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+inbox additions which is important for my GTD-lite style of task
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+management. And a very well thought-out UX/UI.
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+What that means, however, is that I need an aggregation point for tracking my
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+time. It's not enough to use org timers for everything, or webhooks in Todoist.
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+I need both. So I'm going to set out to build some light emacs hooks from the
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+org-clock-in and org-clock out methods. I will also need a hook on org-add-note
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+so I can sync notes to my tracking software. All of this should be for an end,
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+though honestly, I don't have a great way to aggregate and show the time data
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+I'm accumulating in Vrobbler. But that will come. For now I'd love a way to keep
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+track of certain contexts in Org, and others in Todoist. I wonder if there's
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+value in even having blocks in one, like Todoist, where I know to check in org
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+mode for my schedule during certain blocks of the day ... maybe that would go
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+better in a calendar?
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