On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Jeff Horn wrote: > I'm not handy with emacs-lisp, but perhaps someone could whip up a > handy function that iterates org-refile over each TODO heading to move > it into a new, top-level * Tasks headline? > > Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not a huge fan, but it would get done what I want to accomplish as far as the export goes. > Then you can tag the tasks headline with :noexport:. This would > destroy the "context", but I find keeping tasks in a separate heading > fine for most of *my* medium sized projects. YMMV. > Yeah.. most of my todos aren't medium-sized projects, though. Many of them are more along the lines of one-liner action items I need to jot to myself so I don't forget as well as keeping them as a sort of rolling "next actions" queue. For that reason, I'd much rather keep them in their original context. This can't be too hard. ,--- | sed '/[*]* TODO/ s/$/ :noexport:/g' `--- Or (facetious) ,--- | setq (prefix-for-noexport-custom-variable) | setq (default-tags-for-no-export-variable) `--- I just don't know what the elegant, "right" elisp/org method is for something like this. John > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:29 PM, John Hendy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My apologies if this has been discussed. I couldn't find it. I write > > everything from work in org-mode for several reasons. Primarily, it's my > > documentation system for research in order to properly document > Intellectual > > Property (IP) information. It's also for todos and contacts. When it > comes > > to exporting my notes into PDF for use in an IP notebook... I dont' want > my > > todos in there. > > Is there a way to automatically tag TODOs with :noexport:? > > Or simply add the TODO category to the noexport category altogether? > > I haven't turned up anything quite along these lines. One post suggested > > using "TODO keyword COMMENT" [1], but that just seems to perhaps exclude > > from export (didn't try) but I know for sure it removes it from agenda > view. > > I want TODOs in agenda but don't want them showing up with my LaTeX > export. > > I typically print out my work to-date each month or so and have to comb > > through my org file for that month, manually adding :noexport: to my > TODOs. > > Even if I still do this for a few things here and there... it will save > me a > > lot of time. > > I suppose I could keep a separate "TODO.org" file, but I really like the > > process of being able to add them anywhere -- it seems more natural to do > > that in the flow, particularly in meetings, than to constantly switch > > buffers or even use remember to keep sending things related to the > current > > topic away to their own island. > > I'm 80% confident that the answer is ridiculously simply and I just > haven't > > searched the right thing. Thanks for enlightening me! > > > > Thanks, > > John > > _______________________________________________ > > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > > > > > > > > -- > Jeffrey Horn > http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/ >