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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
Subject: Re: Disabling TODO entries in a subtree
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 23:55:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DF64FB57-AF97-42BE-BAFF-2BEEA0A811F8@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+M2ft8rqVrdY-ytQRg_T7zDe_T_WTkkWuHfrS8dYB_XCgxGPQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On 3.10.2013, at 21:45, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> wrote:
>> Hi Orgers,
>> 
>> I work as an editorial assistant for a journal (together with a
>> friend).  We get LaTeX files of articles, and have to convert them to
>> our template, do some proof-reading and corrections, send galleys to
>> authors etc.  It is convenient to have a TODO Org tree for each paper,
>> with TODO subheadings for all these activities.  Thus, I created a tree
>> called "Paper template" with all these TODO entries and copy it as
>> needed.  However, I do not want them to show up an the agenda's todo
>> list.  Is there a possibility to "disable" a tree, so that no its
>> subheadings appear in the global todo list?
> 
> Custom agenda that excludes certain tags? Perhaps there's a way to
> propagate some tag to the contents of the tree? Then exclude any items
> with that tag?

To exclude a specific TODO keyword or so, you can try agenda filters.
Check them out in the manual and in also check out the variable
org-agenda-tag-filter-preset.

To exclude a specific tree, you can try to tag the tree with the ARCHIVE
tag.

- Carsten

> 
> Just a thought,
> John
> 
>> 
>> If not, it's not a huge problem for me - I'll just write a small elisp
>> function inserting my template - but if it's not possible, maybe (and
>> this is a huge maybe!) such a feature is worth adding to Org-mode?
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> --
>> Marcin Borkowski
>> http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
>> Adam Mickiewicz University
>> 
> 


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-03 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-03 19:32 Disabling TODO entries in a subtree Marcin Borkowski
2013-10-03 19:45 ` John Hendy
2013-10-03 21:55   ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2013-10-03 22:01 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-10-04  3:24 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-10-04  3:27   ` Marcin Borkowski

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