Re: Switching between many contexts

From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Switching between many contexts
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:21:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20524da70903021021m3403e57etf9b796aab7371a73@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocwjzts2.fsf@CPU107.opentrends.net>

I've been wondering about something similar.  Suppose you have a bunch
of important tasks and a bunch of fluff tasks.  It might be useful to
be able to have the "agenda" item in org-agenda-custom-commands accept
a tags search so that you can use :fluff: on the fluff tasks and
assign a key for everything except :fluff: tasks.  I was going to wait
until after the Lisp syntax for searches was implemented and for me to
get more experience before suggesting it.  In any case, it looks like
the same kind of thing with categories?

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:03, Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi. I have this scenario: I track several projects in a single file, each in its own level-1 section, but each week I'm working only on one project.
>  In my agenda (C-a a) I'm currently seeing scheduled tasks from all projects, and I would like to exclude all projects but one.
>  I recently added a CATEGORY property to each section.
>
>
>  My questions are:
>
> 1. How can I exclude a category from the agenda view?
>   Probably with key \ TAB CATEGORY="something", but I can't make it work and I'm confused by the many types of searches that are referred to in the manual.
>
> 2. How can I create an agenda view that looks like the normal agenda, but ignores some categories? (at least on that file).
>
> 3. Do you implement this scenario in other ways? For instance, one can add the COMMENT keyword the unwanted projects, use different files, close all old tasks after each context switch, use other tags, …
>
>
>  Thanks,
> Daniel
>
>
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