[TxMt] GTD: preserve kind in done items? (plus thoughts)

[Timothy Bates]

hi, thanks to the ever-so-cool "Get Bundle" bundle, i have the GTD  
bundle installed.

I think this will be very nice.

Thought: when items are marked "d", the command strips the first 5  
characters and prefixes the line-item with "done"

this loses what type of item was being handled. I wonder if simply  
adding done in front might be better?
then the "done" list, can also preserve the types of things done.

So... given
EMAIL list about how great GTD is
I'd rather see
--> DONE: EMAIL list about how great GTD is
Instead of
--> DONE list about how great GTD is

Currently, this stuffs up the "Show..list" commands, as they detect  
the item types even if they have DONE in front of them. The regexp  
could either look for DONE and exclude those lines, or else require  
that the item type is the first character of the line.


Other comments...

1. I wonder if Buy could have a default syntax like:
       BUY  ${1:new purchase} from: ${2:business} cost: \$${3:99}

2. Because email exists as an item type on its own, it seems like  
"task" (should this
    be  called TODO?) item should not have email as the default?
       TODO ${1:new email}
    Not sure what would be better.

3. I wonder if the "Show list" parser could detect e-mail addresses  
and wrap them in <a href=""></a> tags?

4. It would be nice, i think, if the "d" tab completion also post- 
fixed the item with the current date

--> DONE: EMAIL list about how great GTD is (7/6/06:7pm)
Maybe done items could be parsed by done date and/or type of item and  
project file?

If the items were just dumped into a table with type, file, and date  
columns, there are nice little chunks of jscript that automagically  
make such tables sortable.


tim