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/
>>
>>
>>
>>