During the last three years I have managed a team of engineers doing ink-jet printer design at HP's R&D lab in Barcelona. The excellent org-mode emacs package has helped me keep up-to-date with the work of the 12 engineers in my team, working in four different projects, without an obvious impact in my sanity.

During this time some work-flows have evolved, and I have written helper functions for org-mode to support them. This is an account of the steady state at which I have arrived. Please let me know if any of what follows could be done or written in a simpler or more idiomatic way.