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From: Ross Patterson <me@rpatterson.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Restrict agenda view to multiple files matching a pattern?
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:19:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljqwujw4.fsf@transitory.lefae.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vdq0t5mf.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca

Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:

> Ross Patterson <me@rpatterson.net> writes:
>
>> So far at least, I have my tasks broken up into multiple *.org files
>> whose names reflect general categories.  Often I want to look at the
>> agenda view for files starting with "work" to look at all my work
>> tasks.
>>
>> Is there a way I can do this or a better way I should be organizing my
>> tasks?  Putting all my tasks into one work file would just be way too
>> much as I am a freelancer and have a lot to keep track of.  Similarly I
>> don't really want to tag every work task just to support this.  Any
>> suggestions?
>
> Hi Ross,
>
> For my setup I have multiple files that are work related.  Everything in
> the file is work related (or not).  I put a #+FILETAGS: entry at the top
> which tags all tasks for work - then I can limit the agenda to WORK
> tasks easily.
>
> ,----[ norang.org ]
> | #+FILETAGS: NORANG @Work
> `----
>
> I'm currently filtering stuff I'm supposed to do @Work with my @Work
> tag.  There are other tags in the file (like NORANG above) that allows
> me to limit it specifically to a single client etc.
>
> Then I added a entry for @Work to org-tag-alist using 'W' so I can
> filter by this tag easily.
>
> Does that help?

Excellent!  Yes it does?

Thanks!
Ross

     prev parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-23 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-23 18:56 Restrict agenda view to multiple files matching a pattern? Ross Patterson
2009-03-23 19:08 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-03-23 19:08 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-03-23 19:13   ` Ross Patterson
2009-03-23 19:27     ` Matthew Lundin
2009-03-23 19:47       ` Ross Patterson
2009-03-24 14:12         ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-23 19:13 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-03-23 19:19   ` Ross Patterson [this message]

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