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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Neilen Marais <nmarais@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hiding "future" tasks in tags-todo agenda view
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:08:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AB880BBE-73A5-46CF-8E76-1CFDBE756843@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20111014T220716-166@post.gmane.org>


On 14.10.2011, at 22:09, Neilen Marais wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've recently switched from using tracks (http://getontracks.org/) to
> org mode for GTD task management. One neat tracks feature that I am
> struggling to reproduce is the "show task from date". If you add a
> task with no date set, they show up immediately in the context next
> action lists, but if you have a "show from" date in the future, it
> only shows the task from that date onwards.
> 
> Scheduling timestamps (http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#sec-16-9)
> seem like they should do exactly that, but they don't seem to work in
> my custom org-agenda that I use to show only items with a NEXT todo
> state and an assigned context. However, it shows all items
> irrespective of the scheduling setting. 
> 
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>      '(
> 	("c" "Context Next Tasks" 
> 	 tags-todo (mapconcat 'car my-org-context-tag-alist "|")
> 	 ((org-agenda-skip-function '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 
> 				      'nottodo '("NEXT")))
> 	  (org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(tag-up))
> 	  (org-agenda-overriding-header "Context Next Tasks")
> 	  ))
> ))
> 
> How can I make this custom agenda skip items that are scheduled in the
> future, while also keeping unscheduled tasks? I have also tried adding 
> 	  (org-agenda-entry-types '(:scheduled))
> but that did not seem to make any difference.

Hi Neilen,

this was a pretty good attempt for someone who says he is new to org!

Scheduling normally has the purpose to make an item show up in your daily
agenda on a specified date.  But you can use is also to hide items scheduled
in the future from the task list.  Here is how:

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
     '(
	("c" "Context Next Tasks" 
	 tags-todo "TODO=\"NEXT\"+SCHEDULED=\"\"|TODO=\"NEXT\"+SCHEDULED<=\"<today>\""
	 ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(tag-up))
	  (org-agenda-overriding-header "Context Next Tasks")
	  ))))

You can use a regexp match TODO={^\\(NEXT\\|...\\|...\\)$} to check for several
TODO keywords as once.

Another, more compact possibility that is also more easily extended to your
longer list of tasks in my-org-context-tags-alist is:

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
     '(
	("c" "Context Next Tasks" 
	 tags-todo "SCHEDULED=\"\"|SCHEDULED<=\"<today>\"/NEXT"
	 ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(tag-up))
	  (org-agenda-overriding-header "Context Next Tasks")
	  ))))

Let me know if I need to further explain why these works - but I
guess you can figure it out?

Cheers

- Carsten

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-15 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-14 20:09 Hiding "future" tasks in tags-todo agenda view Neilen Marais
2011-10-15  8:02 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-10-15 13:08 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2011-11-10 16:00   ` Hiding Neilen Marais

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