Re: Get a list of tasks completed today

["Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news-D0wtAvR13HarG/iDocfnWg@public.gmane.org>]

"Loris Bennett" wrote:
> "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news-D0wtAvR13HarG/iDocfnWg@public.gmane.org> writes:
>> "Sebastien Vauban" wrote:
>>> To get a list of tasks which I've completed today, I guess we must have:
>>>
>>>   (setq org-log-done t) ; default
>>>
>>> I mean: I guess it's more dangerous to try and play with the "state
>>> changes" information stored in the LOGBOOK drawer as people can easily
>>> modify them (see `org-log-note-headings').
>>>
>>> Under the above assumption, the request becomes:
>>>
>>> (add-to-list 'org-agenda-custom-commands
>>>              '("." "Completed today"
>>>                ((todo "DONE|CANX"
>>>                       ((org-agenda-skip-function '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'notregexp "CLOSED: \\[2014-02-13"))
>>>                        (org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down)))))) t)
>>>
>>> ... for today.
>>>
>>> But how can I include today's date in a programmatic way (so that it
>>> continues to work tomorrow ;-))?
>>
>> That one is solved by doing this:
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>>   (add-to-list 'org-agenda-custom-commands
>>                '("." "Completed today"
>>                  ((todo ""
>>                         ((org-agenda-skip-function
>>                           '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'notregexp (format-time-string "CLOSED: \\[%Y-%m-%d")))))
>>                          (org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down)))))) t)
>> #+end_src

Note that the above DOES NOT WORK if you don't specify TODO states such as:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
                    ((todo "DONE|CANX"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I have the impression this is a bug.

Moreover, you should even add active states such as "TODO" for
repeatable actions which do go back to the "TODO" state; hence, it
becomes:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
                    ((todo "TODO|DONE|CANX"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> I don't really understand the lisp, but I'm guessing that %Y, %m, and %d
> hold the current year, month, and day, respectively, so I can see how
> the regex could be modified to deal with "last year" and "last month".
>
> However, more useful to me would be "last week", so what approach should
> I take for that?

I guess you should begin playing with things such as:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  (time-add (current-time) (seconds-to-time -86400))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

to point to yesterday, etc.

But I'm not sure this is the right approach...

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban