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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: M <Elwood151@web.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modify sorting order of agenda (newest scheduled todos first)?
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:43:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d34x2y3l.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CC03C1F9.10701%Elwood151@web.de> (M.'s message of "Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:18:49 +0200")

M <Elwood151@web.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I want to change the sorting order in the agenda (the standard seems to be
> that overdue items are sorted by date so that the oldest ones are shown
> first) to get the items listed in the following order:
>
> * as a first list:
> todos with a deadline today or before today,
> sorted by priority (descending), then sorted by due date, starting with
> today and the oldest todo at the last position.
>
> * then a blank line with "a customized text" in it
>
> * then as a second list todos scheduled today or before today,
> sorted by priority (descending) and then sorted by scheduled date, but the
> newest ones first
>
>
> e. g.
>
> DEADLINE TODO [#A] re-configure org-mode
> DEADLINE TODO [#B] read org-mode manual
> in -3d   TODO [#B] do this
> in -10d  TODO [#B] do that
> a customized text
> SCHEDULED TODO [#A] learn LISP
> SCHEDULED TODO [#B] understand Emacs
> SCHED.1x  TODO [#A] What I should have done yesterday
> SCHED.1x  TODO [#B] What I might have done yesterday
> SCHED.2x  TODO [#A] What I should have done the day before yesterday
> ...
> SCHED.20x TODO [#A] What I should have done 20 days ago
> SCHED.30x TODO [#A] What I should have done a month ago
>
> IF there are examples for such a configuration of the agenda, please send me
> a link. I did not find anything in the manual, but maybe I've overlooked it.
>
> Kind regars
>
> Martin

Hi Martin,

I'm not sure if the "a customized text" is doable but I control the
order of everything displayed on my agenda with a bunch of custom
sorting functions which are described here:

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#AgendaViewTweaks

HTH.

Regards,
Bernt

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