org: TODO types
5.2.2 TODO keywords as types
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The second possibility is to use TODO keywords to indicate different
_types_ of action items. For example, you might want to indicate that
items are for “work” or “home”. Or, when you work with several people
on a single project, you might want to assign action items directly to
persons, by using their names as TODO keywords. This would be set up
like this:
(setq org-todo-keywords '((type "Fred" "Sara" "Lucy" "|" "DONE")))
In this case, different keywords do not indicate a sequence, but
rather different types. So the normal work flow would be to assign a
task to a person, and later to mark it DONE. Org mode supports this
style by adapting the workings of the command ‘C-c C-t’(1). When used
several times in succession, it will still cycle through all names, in
order to first select the right type for a task. But when you return to
the item after some time and execute ‘C-c C-t’ again, it will switch
from any name directly to DONE. Use prefix arguments or completion to
quickly select a specific name. You can also review the items of a
specific TODO type in a sparse tree by using a numeric prefix to ‘C-c /
t’. For example, to see all things Lucy has to do, you would use ‘C-3
C-c / t’. To collect Lucy’s items from all agenda files into a single
buffer, you would use the numeric prefix argument as well when creating
the global TODO list: ‘C-3 C-c a t’.
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) This is also true for the ‘t’ command in the timeline and agenda
buffers.
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