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> On Thursday, 22 Dec 2016 at 13:01, Xebar Saram wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> i recently had some projects where i would define the overall project
>> as a TODO and then add some more sub headers with TODOS. the problem
>> is that i dont want to see all these sub TODOS in the agenda. For
>> example:
>>
>> * TODO start writing paper
>> ** TODO  collect data
>> ** TODO  add refernces
>
> [...]
>
>> is there a property drawer/other trick to achieve this?
>
> I don't know but I can suggest using checkboxes for this?
> info:(org) Checkboxes
> They work well and are appropriate for when you have sub-tasks for a
> single task.

How about

(setq org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels nil)

?

Hth,

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Marcin Borkowski