From: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
To: George Pearson <george@canals.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: filtering the weekly agenda
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:52:55 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7cdbe30810142122k4daeccdci363ff32001529aee@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F46FB3.10642.28660436@george.canals.com>
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:38 PM, George Pearson wrote:
> I have been using org mode to great effect for a couple of months now
> but there is one thing I have not been able to figure out how to do -
> filtering what is shown in the weekly agenda.
>
> Naturally, when I'm DOING the tasks, I need to see everything scheduled
> for the day. My problem is when I am SCHEDULING tasks for the week.
> The weekly agenda shows me way more than I need to see when scheduling.
>
> My specific problem arises because every day I have a whole bunch of
> recurring
> tasks, each typically 10-20 minutes of effort. After these, I generally
> have four hours per day available for tasks related to my big projects.
> Unfortunately, the recurring tasks all appear in the weekly agenda,
> making it a nuisance to find the days which are still available for
> scheduling the big project tasks. But I have not been able to figure
> out how to suppress the recurring task clutter in the weekly agenda view.
>
> I can see several possible approaches to filtering out the recurring
> tasks (if such filtering is even possible in the weekly agenda):
> 1. somehow use the fact that the task has a repeater
> 2. use the category - right now the tasks are all in a "Recurring"
> category
> 3. mark each with a "recurring" tag and use that
> 4. put the recurring in a different org file (I currently use just
> one org file)
>
> By the way - when scheduling, I use a view of my org file in one emacs
> frame and the weekly agenda (in column view, so I can see the "efforts")
> in a second frame.
Since you already have efforts defined for your tasks, you could
consider adding a block to your agenda for tasks that have "Effort>x"
where x is the effort threshold.
-- Manish
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-15 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-14 14:08 filtering the weekly agenda George Pearson
2008-10-15 4:22 ` Manish [this message]
2008-10-15 14:58 ` George Pearson
2008-10-15 18:49 ` George Pearson
2008-10-20 6:14 ` Carsten Dominik
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