On Thursday, 22 Dec 2016 at 13:01, Xebar Saram wrote:
> Hi all
>
> i recently had some projects where i would define the overall project
> as a TODO and then add some more sub headers with TODOS. the problem
> is that i dont want to see all these sub TODOS in the agenda. For
> example:
>
> * TODO start writing paper
> ** TODO  collect data
> ** TODO  add refernces

[...]

> is there a property drawer/other trick to achieve this?

I don't know but I can suggest using checkboxes for this?
info:(org) Checkboxes
They work well and are appropriate for when you have sub-tasks for a
single task.

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