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Planner

This manual is for Planner version 3.42.

Copyright © 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Parts copyright © 2005 Jim Ottaway
Parts copyright © 2005 Dryice Dong Liu

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3.0 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU General Public License.”

• Preface
• Introduction
• Installation
• Overview: A discussion of different approaches to planning
• Getting Started
• More about Planner: In-depth look at some core features
• Managing Your Information: Integration with external programs
• Advanced Configuration
• Reference Material
• Getting Help
• Acknowledgements
• GNU General Public License
• Concept Index

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Installation

• Getting the Files
• Creating Your Planner
• Components
• Advanced Installation

Getting the Files

• Installing from a Source Archive
• Installing from git
• Installing from Debian

Overview

• Planning based on the Franklin-Covey Approach
• Why Use Planner

Getting Started

• Tasks
• Schedule
• Notes
• Hyperlinks
• Example Page
• Review

More about Planner

• Navigation
• More about Tasks
• More about Notes
• Making Files Pretty
• Annotations
• Interactive Lisp: planner-lisp.el
• Publishing: planner-publish.el
• Experimental Functions: planner-experimental.el

More about Tasks

• Creating New Tasks
• Organizing Your Tasks
• Task Reports and Overviews

Creating New Tasks

• Creating a Task
• Task Priorities
• Task IDs: planner-id.el
• Cyclic Tasks: planner-cyclic.el
• Task Detail
• Deadlines: planner-deadline.el

Organizing Your Tasks

• Multiple Projects
• Viewing Tasks
• Modifying Tasks
• Carrying Over Unfinished Tasks
• Task Numbering
• Task Ranks: planner-rank.el
• Grouping Tasks: planner-trunk.el

Task Reports and Overviews

• Accomplishments: planner-accomplishments.el
• Status Reports: planner-report.el
• Task Overviews: planner-tasks-overview.el
• <tasks> tag
• planner-registry: Keep track of annotations
• planner-zoom: View and navigate tasks by time period

More about Notes

• Using Allout Mode: Quickly navigating your notes
• <notes>: Note headlines
• <past-notes>: Index of past notes
• Note Indices: planner-notes-index.el

Publishing

• Publishing Planner pages: planner-publish.el
• Publishing Calendars: planner-calendar.el
• Authz Access Restriction: planner-authz.el
• RSS Publication: Sharing notes with planner-rss.el
• iCal Task Publication: Sharing tasks with planner-ical.el
• RDF Publication: planner-rdf.el

RDF Publication

• Publishing with planner-rdf
• planner-rdf Tags
• planner-rdf Usage Examples

Managing Your Information

• E-mail: Linking notes and tasks to messages
• Scheduling and Time: Tracking appointments and where your time goes
• Finances: Display your account balances and more
• Contacts and Conversations: BBDB and ERC
• Tracking Research and Resources: The Web, bibliographies, and bookmarks
• Tracking Development

E-mail

• Unix mail: Unix mailboxes: planner-unix-mail.el
• Gnus: Gnus mail and news reader: planner-gnus.el
• VM: VM mail reader: planner-vm.el
• Wanderlust: Wanderlust mail reader: planner-wl.el
• MH-E: MH-E mail reader: planner-mhe.el
• Rmail: Rmail: planner-rmail.el

Scheduling and Time

• Diary: Using the Emacs diary: planner-diary.el
• Appointments: Appointments in plan pages: planner-appt.el
• Timeclock: Time tracking: planner-timeclock.el
• schedule.el: Project completion: planner-schedule.el

Diary

• Planner-Diary Advanced Features

Usage

• Task-based Appointments
• Schedule-based Appointments
• Viewing Appointments
• Appointment Updating on Save
• Appointment and Calendar Integration
• Appointment Hooks

Finances

• Ledger: Personal finances: planner-ledger.el

Contacts and Conversations

• BBDB: Contacts: planner-bbdb.el
• Emacs Relay Chat: Internet Relay Chat: planner-erc.el

Tracking Research and Resources

• W3m: Web browser: planner-w3m.el
• BibTeX: Bibliographies: planner-bibtex.el
• Bookmark: Bookmarks: planner-bookmark.el

Tracking Development

• Log Edit: Changelogs: planner-log-edit.el
• PSVN: svn changesets: planner-psvn.el
• XTLA: TLA changesets: planner-xtla.el
• Gnats: Gnats: The GNU bug reporting system

Advanced Configuration

• Customizing Your Day Pages: Change your templates
• Variables to Customize: Change various aspects of Planner behavior
• Ideas for Other Keybindings: Add to and change the default keybindings

Reference Material

• Keeping Track of Time
• Other Interactive Functions
• Planner Keybindings: Default keybindings for Planner
• Sample Configuration Files

Sample Configuration Files

• File Organization
• Bare-Bones Planning
• Bare-Bones Planning with Plan Pages
• Tasks on Plan Pages with Some Day Pages
• Hierarchical Tasks