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From: Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>
To: Christopher League <league@contrapunctus.net>
Cc: Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: wish list: sort tasks by age
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:57:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbxwipkb.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9FE27D7D-3CB3-4B17-9061-0AFF0FCD0AFF@contrapunctus.net> (Christopher League's message of "Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:04:39 -0400")

Christopher League <league@contrapunctus.net> writes:

> I would love to be able to sort TODOs by their age, so it becomes
> painfully obvious what I have been ignoring.  Since org relies on free- 
> form text (a strength), it's tricky to ensure that every item gets a
> creation-time' property.  But it doesn't need to be accurate to the
> second; even a script that added that property once every day or so
> might do the trick.

Check org-expiry.el in Org's contrib directory, it might do what you
want.  (I still need to write a tutorial about this.)

-- 
 Bastien

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-01 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-30 20:04 wish list: sort tasks by age Christopher League
     [not found] ` <87tz1wzy1o.wl%maus.david@gmail.com>
2009-07-01  8:10   ` Manish
2009-07-01 10:24     ` David Maus
2009-07-01 11:58       ` Bastien
2009-07-01 13:26         ` Christopher League
2009-07-01 14:46           ` Bastien
2009-07-01 11:57 ` Bastien [this message]

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