From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sebastien Vauban" Subject: Re: org-dblock-write:count Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:50:58 +0100 Message-ID: <8638jruwhp.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <20140209130350.GC16519@pacific.linksys.moosehall> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Hi Adam, Adam Spiers wrote: > I just had an awesome conversation with Sacha about more effective > daily/weekly reviewing with org-mode :-) One of the things we talked > about was quantifying the number of tasks (TODO keywords) in any given > state, as a means of becoming more aware of your progress over time. > I have had some success in the past using the "measure what you want > to manage maxim"[1], and wanted to start applying this to my horribly > massive TODO.org file. > > [...] > > #+BEGIN:dynamic block > #+BEGIN: count :keywords (\"NEXT\" \"DONE\") :searches (\"@phone\" \"@home\") > | NEXT | 522 | > | DONE | 69 | > | @phone | 77 | > | @home | 182 | > #+END: > > [...] To me, the best thing would be to see that count up-to-date with every custom agenda view. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-09/msg01075.html for a patch I proposed in that direction. However, I had some comments of Bernt saying that some edge cases are not covered (when the block separator is empty). I still have to fix that, and come back with a fully working solution. Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban