From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ilya Shlyakhter Subject: suggestion: options for chronological agenda Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:02:52 -0400 Message-ID: <4b11f87e0909252202m93e3659gbc6d9c37c35be174@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MrPQy-0000zO-An for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:03:00 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MrPQt-0000z9-PM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:02:59 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41115 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MrPQt-0000z6-LL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:02:55 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f208.google.com ([209.85.219.208]:45769) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MrPQt-0003u6-4c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:02:55 -0400 Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so1277776ewy.31 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:02:52 -0700 (PDT) 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: emacs-orgmode I often need to find recently modified entries. I try to timestamp entries I work on with the active timestamps (in angular brackets), and use the C-x a L command. This mostly works, but is imperfect: - when i use time logging, it inserts "inactive" timestamps that are not found this way. so, i can't use this to find "recently worked on" entries. - it looks at the _first_ timestamp in an entry, rather than the _last_ timestamp - it is limited to one file . would be much better if it could be made to work across the entire agenda. - it would be fine to have the option to limit it to entries within the last, say, week, if that would speed it up. The suggestion is to enhance the timeline agenda with options to: - recognize "inactive" timestamps ([in square brackets]) - use last, rather than first, timestamp in an entry - search the entire agenda, rather than just the current file - limit the agenda to entries within the last (say) week. The timeview agenda was of course originally designed for another use case -- as a personal calendar/diary. But I'm finding myself repeatedly using it this way: organize the entries by hierarchical subject, and use the timeline agenda to generate a chronological listing. It would also be _really_ great if the chronological listing could be filtered to contain only entries matching a certain tag/property query. Then you could e.g. get a chronological list of "important" entries, or entries on a certain subject. ilya