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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Agenda filtering
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 06:12:41 +0200
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To: Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>
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Hi Richard,

Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> writes:

> Is there a simple way for me to say to the agenda, "Show me all (and
> only) the NEXT tasks that are part of a project whose deadline is before
> (say) 2016-11-01"?  It seems like this should be possible with the
> built-in agenda but I can't quite figure it out.  The tricky thing is
> filtering by the deadline of the parent project, which might be several
> levels up.

I would add a category to each project, then use something along this:

("N" "My important tasks" tags-todo
 "CATEGORY={cat1\\|cat2}+TODO={NEXT}+DEADLINE<=\"<+3d>\"")

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien