Ihor,

On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 12:56 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:

> > For example, how would one create a custom agenda view that
> >
> > - shows all accomplished tasks within the DEADLINE last week
> > - shows all accomplished tasks that missed the DEADLINE last week
> >
> > Then does the same for the coming week, i.e.
> >
> > - show all tasks which are due in the next week, i.e., within the
> >   DEADLINE
> > - show all tasks which are overdue
>
> There is org-super-agenda package
> (https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda), which already have a
> part of the functionality. You can use :scheduled and :deadline
> selectors as a starting point to achieve what you want.
>

thank you for the pointer. I will definitely take a look!


> > Ideally, the interaction could even be more informational, so for
> > example, analysis of the available work time next week (assuming 40
> > hours for example) vs. the total estimated effort of all of the above
> > tasks, helping to answer the question of whether all tasks are even
> > achievable given the amount of available work time.
> >
> > Another potential -and very valuable- analysis could be a recommendation
> > of order given DEADLINE, priority and effort over a period of time, for
> > example the next week. What should one do first, then second, etc. to
> > maximize output over a given period of time?
>
> What you want here is actually quite a complicated optimization problem,
> which probably deserves a separate full project of its own.
> I cannot comment much on this part since effort estimates never worked
> for me.
>

Yes. I think it would be awesome if org-mode could do that. If I had the
time, I'd love to take a closer look and see how one could solve for this.

Stephan