Re: Agenda without todos only if there is no other timestamp

[Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>]

Hi,

* TRS-80 <lists.trs-80@isnotmyreal.name> wrote:
>
>> On 2022-04-05 04:48, Karl Voit wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I've got following custom agenda for exporting:
>>> | ("n" "no TODO events +180d"
>>> |  ((agenda "no TODO events +180d"
>>> |           ((org-agenda-span 180)
>>> |            (org-agenda-time-grid nil)
>>> |            (org-agenda-entry-types '(:timestamp :sexp))
>>> |            (org-agenda-skip-function
>>> |             '(or
>>> |               (org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'todo 'any);; skip if any
>>> TODO state is found
>>> |               (org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'category "errors");; skip
>>> if any TODO state is found
>>> |               (my-skip-tag "lp")
>>> |           )))))
>>> |  nil (,(concat my-org-files-path "agenda_180d_filtered_raw.html")))
>>> (don't mind the stupid name - I may fix this as it is misleading
>>> here)
>>> This results in an HTML file that contains my appointments without
>>> the tasks.
>>> Unfortunately, I sometimes seem to schedule appointments within open
>>> todos such as:
>>> | * NEXT talk with Steve about the project X
>>> | SCHEDULED: <2022-04-05 Tue>
>>> |
>>> | - [X] ask him for a time-slot
>>> | - we settled for: <2022-04-05 Tue 14:00-15:00>
>>> Of course, those appointments are lost in my agenda export as
>>> specified above. This is a bummer and I want to fix this somehow.
>>> Tasks should be omitted only if there is no other time-stamp than
>>> deadline or scheduled.
>>> org-agenda-skip-if lists:
>>> | scheduled     Check if there is a scheduled cookie
>>> | notscheduled  Check if there is no scheduled cookie
>>> | deadline      Check if there is a deadline
>>> | notdeadline   Check if there is no deadline
>>> | timestamp     Check if there is a timestamp (also deadline or
>>> scheduled)
>>> | nottimestamp  Check if there is no timestamp (also deadline or
>>> scheduled)
>>> | regexp        Check if regexp matches
>>> | notregexp     Check if regexp does not match.
>>> | todo          Check if TODO keyword matches
>>> | nottodo       Check if TODO keyword does not match
>>> How is it possible to accomplish this? I think this would require
>>> something like "Check if there is a timestamp (except deadline or
>>> scheduled)" which isn't available yet.
>>> Any ideas on that one?
>>
>> I think you will need to write a custom ~org-agenda-skip-function~.
>>
>
> I realized there is probably an even easier way (no custom ELisp
> required), simply by creating a separate child heading for the meeting,
> which should then show up.

Thanks for the idea. This is my current workaround. However, it
happens in longer headings that I insert a time/datestamp at the end
without realizing that I'm working in a todo heading. This is an
issue for me because I do have to check every time I'm using
timestamps. It's rather obvious that I fail from time to time and I
lose the entry on my non-todo-agenda.

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