It’s Christmas Eve and Rainer König has just landed his sleigh on the roof of the Irreal International Headquarters with a gift. After a long absence, he’s back with another episode of his OrgMode Tutorial video series. This time he looks at goal setting and tracking.
König considers two ways of using Org mode for recording and tracking goals. The first uses the PROPERTY drawer to set the type of goal in a normal TODO type file. König shows how to use column view to easily set and maintain these settings.
Then König considers the strategy of using a separate goals.org file. In this solution he uses a custom capture template to easily capture a series of fields for each goal. It’s a nice example of using a “fill-in-the-blanks” capture template that would be useful in many different applications.
The video is just a bit over 20 and a half minutes so you’ll probably have to schedule some time. It’s a nice example of using Org mode for one of its signature type of applications.