Re: using org for meeting agendas and minutes?

[Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:56:07PM +0000, Adam Spiers wrote:

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>   (3) Allow actions to be captured and then automatically extracted
>       into a simple tabulated report which clearly shows actions
>       grouped by owner.

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> For (3) and (4), my current thinking is to have workflow defined by
> TODO keywords, e.g. 
> 
>   #+SEQ_TODO: ACTION WAITING | DONE
> 
> and to have action ownership defined via tags, e.g.
> 
>   #+TAGS: { Alice(a) Bob(b) Carys(c) }
> 
> Then a dynamic columnview block at the end of the file could easily
> extract all actions and summarise them so that each owner of action(s)
> can easily see them.  This is where sorting of rows in column view
> would be really useful!

Hmm, actually column view doesn't let you filter the table so that
there are only rows corresponding to headers containing the 'ACTION'
keyword, so it looks like a custom dynamic block writer function will
be required.  Is there an appropriate API I could use for extracting
all headers containing a given keyword from an org buffer?