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 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/ > > > >