{"id":6857,"date":"2017-12-31T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2017-12-31T15:15:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T20:15:18","slug":"konig-36-a-third-way-of-setting-and-tracking-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6857","title":{"rendered":"K\u00f6nig 36: A Third Way of Setting and Tracking Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Rainer K\u00f6nig is back with a followup to his previous video on setting and tracking goals that I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6843\">a week ago<\/a>. This time he approaches the task <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=odOKnNDKSIs\">using hierarchial tags<\/a>. With hierarchial tags, you give a set of related tags a group name and can then search or filter the tags by the group name. You can even describe the members of a group with a regular expression so you don&rsquo;t need to know what they are in advance. <\/p>\n<p> That works out perfectly for K\u00f6nig&rsquo;s purpose because he can tag each individual goal with a unique tag that ties together all the tasks related to that goal and can also refer to <i>all<\/i> goals by using the group name. See the video for the details on how he used it for tracking goals. <\/p>\n<p> I didn&rsquo;t know about hierarchial tags before but it&rsquo;s easy to imagine lots of use cases for them. The Org Mode manual page for them <a href=\"http:\/\/orgmode.org\/manual\/Tag-hierarchy.html#Tag-hierarchy\">is here<\/a>. If you like using tags to tie things together, you should definitely take a look at hierarchial tags. You can even have sub-groups (and sub- sub-groups, etc.) so the device is very flexible. <\/p>\n<p> The video is just short of 8 minutes so it should be easy to work it in. If you have time, you might also want to rewatch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=APhhHCBI8xc\">his previous video<\/a> to refresh the context. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainer K\u00f6nig is back with a followup to his previous video on setting and tracking goals that I wrote about a week ago. This time he approaches the task using hierarchial tags. With hierarchial tags, you give a set of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6857\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,4],"class_list":["post-6857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs","tag-org-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6858,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions\/6858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}