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Subject: Re: TODO items which do not appear in the agenda?
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:42:57 -0600
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I'm a little confused; for me, by default, TODO items do NOT 
appear in the agenda. They only appear if connected to a deadline, 
date, or schedule item. I have files of hundreds of TODO items 
that don't appear in agenda unless I give them a date. I think 
this is the default behavior. 

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to have some TODO items, so that I can mark some 
> tasks as
> incomplete; however, I don't want them to appear in the agenda, 
> so that
> it's not too cluttered.  Use case:
>
> * Blog
> ** DONE Blog post idea 1
> ** TODO Blog post idea 2
>
> I know about (setq org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels nil). 
> However,
> marking the whole "Blog" headline as DONE only so that I don't 
> see the
> individual post ideas in my agenda seems hackish.
>
> I also know that I could define my own TODO items and use 
> filtering
> (maybe even with a custom agenda command).  Maybe this is the 
> way to go,
> but somehow I'd prefer a simple set of TODO keywords
> (TODO/DONE/CANCELED, for instance).
>
> So, does the Org hive mind have any other ideas how to implement 
> "TODO
> items which do not appear in the agenda"?
>
> TIA