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From: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Projects+Next Actions view
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 00:58:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTindOkjCH7YoL+_-HF_W4jcDTkMLpWf=i_1hsfiy@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eicaokev.fsf@fastmail.fm>

Thanks Matt!

However, this seems to show all the TODO items below a PROJECT item,
including the DONE ones. What I had in mind was to show only the first
child. Is it possible?

Thanks,

Marcelo.

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Another thing that I like about Things
>> (http://culturedcode.com/things/) is the "Next Actions" view. It
>> basically lists all projects plus the very first next action for each
>> of them. When you need some perspective, having quick access to a view
>> like this is very useful. It also shows any "orphan" tasks (tasks that
>> don't belong to a project), so you have a nice overview of what you
>> can do based on your own input.
>>
>> With org, I have created a Projects view, a tags agenda filter
>> filtering for non-todo items. I could use follow mode, which is quite
>> useful, but doesn't give the same uncluttered view Things does with
>> its next actions view. I was wondering if it would be possible, even
>> if more elisp would be needed, to create a view like this?
>>
>> E.x:
>>
>> * Keep the cat alive :PROJECT:HOME:
>>  ** TODO Feed the cat
>>   ...
>>
>> * Feature 2 :PROJECT:FEATURE:
>> ** TODO Run the script
>>  ...
>>
>
> You could use a sparse tree view:
>
> (add-to-list 'org-agenda-custom-commands
>             '("x" "PROJECT+N/A" tags-tree "PROJECT|TODO=\"TODO\""
>               ((org-show-siblings nil)
>                (org-show-entry-below nil))))
>
> Best,
> Matt
>

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-01  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-30 18:03 Projects+Next Actions view Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2010-09-30 23:56 ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-01  5:58   ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa [this message]
2010-10-01 10:15     ` Łukasz Stelmach

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