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From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)
Subject: Re: Sparse tree for undated TODOs, or hierachical agenda?
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:10:16 -0400
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Hi, Nikolaus.

Nikolaus Rath writes:

> Hello, 
> 
> I'm starting to like orgmode more and more. Thanks for working 
> on this! 
> 
> However, for me the global todo list in the Agenda very hard to 
> digest (even when excluding sublevels), so I'd rather have a 
> view that conserves the document structure.

If you want to restrict to your current document before building 
the agenda use '<', so if 'C-c a' calls your agenda (suggested org 
key), then you can do 'C-c a < a' to get the agenda restricted to 
the buffer that you are in.
 
> Is there a way to create a sparse tree that shows only undated 
> TODOs (i.e., excludes anything that scheduled or has a 
> deadline)?

I do not know what you mean by sparse tree, but this excludes 
anything scheduled or with a deadline from the global todo list:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 'all)
  (setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines 'all)
#+END_SRC

Instead of 'all you can also use 'past or 'future to exclude only 
scheduled and deadlines from the past or the future, respectively.

Best,
-- 
Jorge.