Hi Mike,
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> With Org babel, and my org-mode configuration being a ~.org~ file, I also
> manage to achieve DRY. My three individual agenda blocks are defined once,
> and the complete view just references them with <<>> noweb syntax.


Could you elaborate a bit more on that? This looks pretty interesting (I
haven't put org-babel to use yet).

- Marcelo.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Mike McLean <mike.mclean@pobox.com> wrote:

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> On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
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> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > Mike McLean <mike.mclean@pobox.com> writes:
> >
> >> I have a grand thought of someday writing an agenda view or mode that
> >> looks like a Kanban board -- I've seen some of what can be done with
> >> respect to views in Emacs from the ~calfw~ package, so it is just a
> >> matter of time.
> >
> > Just a thought: isn't this already possible with Agenda Blocks?
> >
> > You get the columns as rows, but you get the various categories
> > displayed at once.
>
> That is what I am doing now as my “non-visual” version. It actually works
> pretty well. My thought is to create something like one of the online
> Kanban boards for more visual impact.
>
> I didn't elaborate before since the question was about TODO states, but I
> have 4 Kanban-named views in my ~org-agenda-custom-commands~; one view each
> for BACKLOG, TODO, and DOING so that I can look at each stage individually
> and a fourth with all three of those blocks as you suggest to get them all
> at once.
>
> With Org babel, and my org-mode configuration being a ~.org~ file, I also
> manage to achieve DRY. My three individual agenda blocks are defined once,
> and the complete view just references them with <<>> noweb syntax.
>
> Did I mention how awesome Org mode is ? I should have :)
>
> Mike
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