From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Manish Subject: Re: filtering the weekly agenda Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:52:55 +0530 Message-ID: References: <48F46FB3.10642.28660436@george.canals.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpxug-00030M-5a for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:23:10 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpxua-00030A-Od for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:23:08 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50680 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpxua-000307-JP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:23:04 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.184]:19685) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KpxuZ-0003ZZ-Gl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:23:04 -0400 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id u5so1408105tia.10 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:22:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48F46FB3.10642.28660436@george.canals.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: George Pearson Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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