From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Pete Phillips <pete@smtl.co.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tags-tree question
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 08:44:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AF077A34-F3DD-4180-86D8-4F87DE3791F5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10913.1225668040@localhost>
Hi Pete,
there is currently no way o say "today plus 1 month" in a query. The
rest of it would be possible.
- Carsten
On Nov 3, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Pete Phillips wrote:
> Hi Carsten
>
> Carsten> I have now removed the speed-penalty on this syntax. So
> Carsten> if, during a tag search, you use property-like expressions
> Carsten> for TODO, LEVEL, or CATEGORY, there will be no speed
> Carsten> penalty involved. If you access any other properties,
> Carsten> there will be a one-time penalty. Once you have paid that
> Carsten> penalty for a single property, it is cheap to test
> Carsten> additional properties (unless inheritance is involved).
>
> Many thanks for doing this. I haven't had the chance to try it out yet
> (been too busy actually getting things off my Home list this w/e! -
> oh -
> and letting fireworks off tonight as well <grin>) but your solution
> from
> last week using the non-intuitive method worked perfectly for me
> anyhow.
>
> On a related question, is it possible to set up an
> org-agenda-custom-command to pick out a set of tags, all of which have
> NEXT as a todo-type, and which either have no scheduled date, OR which
> have a scheduled or deadline date less than or equal to 1 month in the
> future.
>
> For example, show lines with
>
> NEXT and (Home | LaptopH | DIY)
>
> where either there is no scheduled (or perhaps, deadline) date OR
>
> Scheduled Date <= today + 1 month
>
> My thinking on this is that sometimes I have next actions (such as
> cutting my pampas grass every january), which would be set up like
> this:
>
> *** NEXT Cut pampass grass :DIY:
> SCHEDULED: <2009-01-12 Thu>
>
> My current setup uses this:
>
> ("h" "Home Stuff (Next)"
> ((tags "Home//NEXT" nil)
> (tags "DIY//NEXT" nil)
> (tags "LaptopH//NEXT" nil)
> nil)
>
> The problem at the moment is that it shows up all year in my Home
> Stuff
> (Next) list (which searches for Home|LaptopH|DIY with NEXT todotypes),
> but I only want it to start showing up about a month before the date I
> have decided I need to do it. At the moment, NEXT items which I will
> need to do, but which I can't do anything about until nearer the time,
> clutter up my action lists.
>
> Is there any way to do this ?
>
> Cheers,
> Pete
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-29 14:00 tags-tree question Pete Phillips
2008-10-29 15:52 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-29 15:59 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-11-01 12:51 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-11-02 23:20 ` Pete Phillips
2008-11-03 1:51 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-06-21 11:19 ` Pete Phillips
2009-06-21 13:46 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-06-22 9:53 ` Pete Phillips
2009-06-22 11:56 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-06-22 22:52 ` Pete Phillips
2009-06-23 10:07 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-06-23 8:26 ` Pete Phillips
2009-06-22 12:39 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-11-03 7:44 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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