Re: suggestion: options for chronological agenda

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: suggestion: options for chronological agenda
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:10:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A73538F-84B1-4E48-B566-5D0BD5DE182F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b11f87e0909252202m93e3659gbc6d9c37c35be174@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ilya,

have you tried

   C-a a    to get the agenda,

and then

   v [

to include inactive time stamps?

HTH

- Carsten

On Sep 26, 2009, at 6:02 AM, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote:

> I often need to find recently modified entries.   I try to timestamp
> entries I work on with the active timestamps
> (in angular brackets), and use the C-x a L command.   This mostly
> works, but is imperfect:
>   - when i use time logging, it inserts "inactive" timestamps that
> are not found this way.   so, i can't use this to find
>   "recently worked on" entries.
>   - it looks at the _first_ timestamp in an entry, rather than the
> _last_ timestamp
>   - it is limited to one file .   would be much better if it could
> be made to work across the entire agenda.
>   - it would be fine to have the option to limit it to entries
> within the last, say, week, if that would speed it up.
>
> The suggestion is to enhance the timeline agenda with options to:
>  - recognize "inactive" timestamps ([in square brackets])
>  - use last, rather than first, timestamp in an entry
>  - search the entire agenda, rather than just the current file
>  - limit the agenda to entries within the last (say) week.
>
> The timeview agenda was of course originally designed for another use
> case -- as a personal calendar/diary.
> But I'm finding myself repeatedly using it this way: organize the
> entries by hierarchical subject, and use the timeline
> agenda to generate a chronological listing.
>
> It would also be _really_ great if the chronological listing could be
> filtered to contain only entries matching a certain
> tag/property query.   Then you could e.g. get a chronological list of
> "important" entries, or entries on a certain
> subject.
>
> ilya
>
>
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