I ran into another possible solution for the request of seeing the first
X TODO tasks for a project in the Agenda:

Let's say I simply run an org-tags-todo query looking for :project:

The Agenda now shows this:

Project1
Project2
Project3

Another possible solution would be to simply TAB to one of the projects, and
run org-todo-list with the restriction on the current subtree.

I'm trying to find a way to create a function to do this . . . . . . I guess
a macro-like function would work

Thanks,
--Nate


On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 8:59 AM Sacha Chua <sacha@sachachua.com> wrote:

> Hmm, you're right, that project subtask snippet isn't working any more. I
> don't think I can sort that out while I'm away from my computer, so it may
> take me a few weeks until I can poke around. If anyone happens to have a
> better config, please feel free to share!
>
> On Wed., Jul. 31, 2019, 10:37 Nathan Neff, <nathan.neff@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I forgot to mention that I have PROJECT tag as not inheritable:
>> (setq org-tags-exclude-from-inheritance (quote ("PROJECT")))
>>
>> And here's the agenda custom-command addition:
>>  ("2" "List projects with tasks" my/org-agenda-projects-and-tasks
>>          "+PROJECT"
>>          ((org-agenda-max-entries 3))
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 9:32 PM Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I found this cool snippet at Sacha Chua's website: [1].
>>>
>>> It creates an agenda view with headings marked with tag "project",
>>> and for each of those headings, it displays up to 3 sub headings marked
>>> TODO.
>>>
>>> I like this idea of seeing my projects (plus a few TODO entries under
>>> each project)
>>> in the agenda is a cool idea, so I copy/pasted the snippet at [1].
>>>
>>> I created an example org file:
>>> * Project 1                                                    :PROJECT:
>>> ** todo task 1.1
>>> ** todo task 1.2
>>> ** todo task 1.3
>>> ** todo task 1.4
>>> * Project 2                                                    :PROJECT:
>>> ** todo task 2.1
>>> ** todo task 2.2
>>> ** todo task 2.3
>>> ** todo task 2.4
>>>
>>> And ran the custom agenda command on only that file.
>>>
>>> The output which is produced lists each project correctly.
>>> However the sub-tasks under each project are the *same 3 subtasks*
>>> from Project 1
>>>
>>>   foo:        Project 1
>>>   foo:        todo task 1.1
>>>   foo:        todo task 1.2
>>>   foo:        todo task 1.3
>>>   foo:        Project 2
>>>   foo:        todo task 1.1
>>>   foo:        todo task 1.2
>>>   foo:        todo task 1.3
>>>
>>> The snippet at [1] is a bit more complex than I thought would be
>>> necessary for such
>>> an agenda view.  Does someone have any snippets or suggestions for how to
>>> accomplish the idea above?  Is there something obvious that I'm missing
>>> about
>>> the setup of my test org file?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> --Nate
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://github.com/sachac/.emacs.d/blob/gh-pages/Sacha.org#display-projects-with-associated-subtasks
>>> The associated blog entry is:
>>>
>>> https://sachachua.com/blog/2013/01/emacs-org-display-projects-with-a-few-subtasks-in-the-agenda-view/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>