9.4.2 Bare-Bones Planning

You can keep all of your tasks, notes and schedules in a single file: WelcomePage. This is good for people who are used to storing all of their information in a flat text file. By storing your information in planner, you'll be able to take advantage of automatic hyperlinking to files and other resources. You can also sort your tasks by priority and status.

To set your system up for bare-bones planning, set the planner-use-day-pages variable to nil before loading planner. For example, you can put this in your ~/.emacs (or _emacs):

     (setq planner-use-day-pages nil)
     (setq planner-default-page nil)
     (require 'planner)

When you create a task or note, planner will not prompt you for a date. If you press <RET> when prompted for a plan page, it will accept the default of nil, so no other plan pages will be used. All of your data will be kept in one file, which can then be easily backed up.

You can use commands like planner-create-task-from-buffer to create tasks, or you can type tasks in manually. You can edit or delete anything in the page without having to update other files.