From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: Filtering for effort in org-agenda Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:18:34 -0400 Message-ID: <87iqlp3mxx.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> References: <87tz5aq48u.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87ab72d9xs.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LocvV-0007Sc-UZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:18:46 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LocvR-0007Ol-08 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:18:44 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45349 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LocvQ-0007ON-Qy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:18:40 -0400 Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:59407) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LocvQ-0001DF-HP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:18:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Carsten Dominik's message of "Tue\, 31 Mar 2009 13\:38\:56 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: Org Mode List Carsten Dominik writes: > On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote: >> >> I was looking for a way to select tasks with no effort so I could >> define >> an effort before working on them. >> >> I'd like to retain the ability to find tasks with no effort easily. >> There's probably a better solution that the one I came up with. > > Are you doing this now using filtering for effort, or a property > search for Effort? I'm using filtering for effort. I'm doing this from the agenda currently - getting a list of todo tasks, limiting to tasks with tag NEXT and then further limiting it to effort times <0 using the standard agenda effort filter List of all TODO entries (excluding dated items) / Limit to NEXT tagged tasks / / Limit to effort <= 0 / / / C-c a t / N / + 1 -Bernt > > - Carsten > >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> commit dc438851021ba340bbff3462671e2b142ff6bdbf >> Author: Carsten Dominik >> Date: Tue Nov 11 06:56:32 2008 +0100 >> >> Treat no effort defined as 0 minutes. >> >> Bernt Hanses writes: >> >> This changes the default value for Effort during agenda filtering >> so >> that an undefined Effort value is treated as 0 instead of nil. >> Tasks >> with no effort defined now return zero effort when selecting >> tasks for >> the filter. >> >> There was effectively no way to select 'tasks with no effort >> defined' >> using the agenda effort filter. The '<' operator is interpreted as >> '<=' and the default effort selection defined in >> org-agenda-filter-by-tag starts with zero ("0 0:10 ...") so this >> change just treats tasks with no effort defined the same as tasks >> with >> an effort of 0. >> >> This allows fast selection of NEXT tasks with no effort defined. >> Column view with follow-mode active in the agenda is great for >> quickly >> filling in the agenda estimated effort values for tasks. Just >> display >> your Next tasks, then / 0 to select tasks with no effort and enter >> column mode (C-c C-x C-c) and fill in your effort values with the >> quick keys (0-9) for all of the tasks that have blanks in the >> effort >> column. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------