From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "George Pearson" Subject: filtering the weekly agenda Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:08:51 -0400 Message-ID: <48F46FB3.10642.28660436@george.canals.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KpkaC-0007bo-Eo for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:09:08 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KpkaA-0007b4-Kv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:09:07 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50575 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KpkaA-0007az-Fg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:09:06 -0400 Received: from shared9.whbdns.com ([75.126.177.135]:34170) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KpkaA-0000iN-Im for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:09:06 -0400 Received: from c-24-128-69-40.hsd1.nh.comcast.net ([24.128.69.40] helo=[192.168.1.103]) by shared9.whbdns.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kpka7-00053p-C4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:09:03 +0000 Content-description: Mail message body List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I have been using org mode to great effect for a couple of months now but there is one thing I have not been able to figure out how to do - filtering what is shown in the weekly agenda. Naturally, when I'm DOING the tasks, I need to see everything scheduled for the day. My problem is when I am SCHEDULING tasks for the week. The weekly agenda shows me way more than I need to see when scheduling. My specific problem arises because every day I have a whole bunch of recurring tasks, each typically 10-20 minutes of effort. After these, I generally have four hours per day available for tasks related to my big projects. Unfortunately, the recurring tasks all appear in the weekly agenda, making it a nuisance to find the days which are still available for scheduling the big project tasks. But I have not been able to figure out how to suppress the recurring task clutter in the weekly agenda view. I can see several possible approaches to filtering out the recurring tasks (if such filtering is even possible in the weekly agenda): 1. somehow use the fact that the task has a repeater 2. use the category - right now the tasks are all in a "Recurring" category 3. mark each with a "recurring" tag and use that 4. put the recurring in a different org file (I currently use just one org file) By the way - when scheduling, I use a view of my org file in one emacs frame and the weekly agenda (in column view, so I can see the "efforts") in a second frame. Any advice appreciated!