From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sebastien Vauban" Subject: Re: org-dblock-write:count Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:42:54 +0100 Message-ID: <86mwhtj25t.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <20140209130350.GC16519@pacific.linksys.moosehall> <8638jruwhp.fsf@somewhere.org> 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 "Sebastien Vauban" wrote: > 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. An alternative could be `org-effectiveness', and having a hook to display the count (in the mode line) at each opening of an Org file... Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban