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From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@outlook.com>
To: "joakim@verona.se" <joakim@verona.se>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is is possible to summarize contents of a task in the agenda headings?
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 06:20:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SN6PR07MB574242D3B113B07B7A7A4E4BA5220@SN6PR07MB5742.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tver9ran.fsf@chopper> (joakim's message of "Sun, 21 Apr 2019 19:55:28 +0200")

<joakim@verona.se> writes:

> Say I have a bunch of tasks like this:
>
> * TODO task with many subtasks
> ** TODO subtask 1
> ** TODO subtask 2
> * TODO another task with many subtasks
> ** TODO another subtask 1
> ** TODO another subtask 2
>
> And so on.
>
> Now, in the agenda, I would like some kind of summarizing, perhaps like:
>
> * TODO task with many subtasks, subtask 1, subtask 2
> * TODO another task with many subtasks, another subtask 1, another subtask 2
>
> Is this possible?
>
> The reason is that I have many "tasks with many subtasks", so I have
> used the setting to hide them in the Agenda. Still, I would like to know
> something about the contents of such grouping tasks in the agenda, if
> possible.

Maybe you want the 'org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' variable?

Another more complicated option that I've just begun looking at is the
:agenda-group capability in the org-super-agenda package on MELPA.  The
documentation is interesting on the website, but I haven't quite figured
out the trick to make it work for me.  You can find it here:

https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda

--
David Masterson

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-22  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-21 17:55 Is is possible to summarize contents of a task in the agenda headings? joakim
2019-04-22  6:20 ` David Masterson [this message]
2019-04-23 19:35   ` joakim
2019-04-26  3:39     ` David Masterson
2019-05-06  8:09       ` joakim
2019-05-08 23:46         ` Adrian Bradd

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