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From: Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with agenda-custom commands
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:19:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E378CF.1050109@sift.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KkzuK-0007T4-Uc@box188.bluehost.com>


> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:40:46 -0500
> From: Paul Holcomb <pholcomb@cpoint.net>
> Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Help with agenda-custom commands
> To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, pholcomb@cpoint.net
> Message-ID: <20080930164045.GC28285@cpoint.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 07:16:41AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 
>>> *) Is there a simple way to construct an agenda view that:
>>> -shows all past scheduled events for one TODO keyword only
>>> -skips for all others
> 
>> I have not tested this, but you might be able to use the general tags/ 
>> property/todo matcher
>> on `C-c a m' like this:
>>
>> SCHEDULED<"<today>"/!+MYTODOKEYWORD
> 
>  This works, but not for a day or week view.  
> 
>  On the positive side, while I was trying to figure out how to do
>  this, I've started to rethink how I'm using the different date
>  keywords.
> 
>  I was originally trying to overload the meaning of SCHEDULED.  Making
>  a TODO item that starts in the future and then will continue showing
>  up until done (as in the manual) for "WAITING" items, but also as a
>  TODO item that starts in the future, but then should become a normal
>  TODO item for everything not a "WAITING" item.
>  
>  I think a better approach to the second one is going to be using a
>  property like ACTIVEON, like so:
> 
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :ACTIVEON:       <2008-10-01 Wed>
>   :END:
> 
>  I'm still at the idea stage here, but think it could work with a hook
>  similar to org-expiry.el or org-depend.el


I'm not entirely sure I follow this --- are you looking for something
that will be like a release time in scheduling?  I.e., the task would
effectively be invisible (at least on agenda view) until its ACTIVEON
date, and then act like a normal task from then on?

       reply	other threads:[~2008-10-01 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1KkzuK-0007T4-Uc@box188.bluehost.com>
2008-10-01 13:19 ` Robert Goldman [this message]
2008-09-24 23:16 Help with agenda-custom commands Paul Holcomb
2008-09-28  5:16 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-09-30 16:40   ` Paul Holcomb
2008-10-01  9:01     ` Carsten Dominik

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