From: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
To: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: property searches for #+CATEGORY
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:34:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071107133404.GL13544@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d6808890711070523u50bd8bbp963960978171e132@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:23:12PM +0100, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
> On 07/11/2007, Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> wrote:
> > I have several personal .org files, and several work-related ones too.
> > In each personal file, I have a line:
> >
> > #+CATEGORY: personal
> >
> > and in each work-related file, I have a line:
> >
> > #+CATEGORY: work
> >
> > I would like to be able to bind agenda custom commands to do tag
> > searches which are narrowed to one of these categories, e.g. "show me
> > all personal priority #A tasks". Such a search needs to span *all*
> > agenda files, therefore the standard per-buffer narrowing provided by
> > the '<' binding in the *Agenda Commands* buffer is insufficient.
> >
> > Would it make sense to include CATEGORY as a special property? After
> > all, pretty much all other per-task meta-data ("TODO", "PRIORITY"
> > etc.) are already available via the property interface, and this way,
> > I could easily achieve what I need with tag searches such as
> >
> > CATEGORY="personal"+PRIORITY="A"
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> It would seem to me that this is exactly what tags does.
> You could move everything down a level and use tag inheritance:
> * personal stuff :personal:
> * work stuff :work:
I could, but this would mean that each file would have a single
top-level entry, and the entire contents would be indented an extra
level, which I fear is a rather unattractive solution!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-07 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-07 11:17 property searches for #+CATEGORY Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 12:49 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 12:15 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 13:23 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2007-11-07 13:34 ` Adam Spiers [this message]
2007-11-07 13:59 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2007-11-07 14:28 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 14:52 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2007-11-07 16:35 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 16:15 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-11-07 18:07 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-08 4:55 ` Bastien
2007-11-08 8:54 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-11-07 14:49 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 14:32 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 14:15 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 13:52 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 17:16 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 17:23 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-08 4:42 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 16:20 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-11-08 0:04 ` Adam Spiers
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-07 23:35 Mario E. Munich
2008-12-08 16:40 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-09 0:33 ` Mario E. Munich
2008-12-09 1:41 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-09 6:51 ` Mario E. Munich
2008-12-07 23:39 Mario E. Munich
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