org-super-agenda global list of TODO items

org-super-agenda global list of TODO items

[Angel de Vicente]

Hello,

I just learnt about org-super-agenda today and it looks brilliant to
keep my agenda a bit better organized. But I tend to use the "C-c a h"
to view the daily agenda and the tasks. I managed to organize my todo
items in the daily agenda view without issues, but I'm not sure what I
have to do to organize the items in the "Global list of TODO items". Is
this possible? Any examples to point me in the right direction?

Many thanks,
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Re: org-super-agenda global list of TODO items

[Ihor Radchenko]

Angel de Vicente <angel.vicente.garrido@gmail.com> writes:

> I managed to organize my todo
> items in the daily agenda view without issues, but I'm not sure what I
> have to do to organize the items in the "Global list of TODO items". Is
> this possible? Any examples to point me in the right direction?

Could you please elaborate what you mean by "organize"?

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Re: org-super-agenda global list of TODO items

[Angel de Vicente]

Hello,

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:

> Could you please elaborate what you mean by "organize"?

Maybe the best is an image... If you look at
https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda/blob/master/images/screenshots/index.org,
you can see that the TODO items for a given date in the agenda are
neatly organized by using org-super-agenda into user-defined groups
(Important, Personal, etc.).

I got this working fine, but then I have a long list of TODO items with
no scheduled date. I was hoping that org-super-agenda would also work on
those items, so that similar grouping would be applied to them, but I
don't know if this is not possible or I'm missing something.

As an example, my agenda now looks like the following, where the
grouping is not applied to the Global list of TODO items (which I would
like):

,----
| Day-agenda (W37):
| Tuesday    13 September 2022
| 
|  Schedule
|                6:35...... now - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|                8:00...... ----------------
|               10:00...... ----------------
|               12:00...... ----------------
|               14:00...... ----------------
|               16:00...... ----------------
|   diary:      17:30-18:30 Timaginas Teatro 
|               18:00...... ----------------
|               20:00...... ----------------
| 
|  Important
|   TODO_personal:Scheduled:  TODO [#A] Revisión óptica                :personal:
| 
|  Personal
|   TODO_personal:Scheduled:  TODO Call city hall                      :personal:
| 
| ===============================================================================
| Global list of TODO items of type: ALL
| 
|  Schedule
|   TODO_wprogress:TODO [#A] P-CORONA (open source version) [2/11]        :polmag:
|   TODO_personal:TODO [#B] Oculista Alex                               :personal:
|   TODO_personal:TODO [#B] Imprimir detalles Pelayo                    :personal:
|   TODO_wprogress:TODO Leer:                                       :astrophysics:
|   TODO_wprogress:TODO PORTA: Prepare citation file                      :polmag:
`----

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Re: org-super-agenda global list of TODO items

[Ihor Radchenko]

Angel de Vicente <angel.vicente.garrido@gmail.com> writes:

>> Could you please elaborate what you mean by "organize"?
>
> Maybe the best is an image... If you look at
> https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda/blob/master/images/screenshots/index.org,
> you can see that the TODO items for a given date in the agenda are
> neatly organized by using org-super-agenda into user-defined groups
> (Important, Personal, etc.).
>
> I got this working fine, but then I have a long list of TODO items with
> no scheduled date. I was hoping that org-super-agenda would also work on
> those items, so that similar grouping would be applied to them, but I
> don't know if this is not possible or I'm missing something.

How do you customize your org-super-agenda-groups variable?

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Re: org-super-agenda global list of TODO items

[Angel de Vicente]

Hello,

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:

> How do you customize your org-super-agenda-groups variable?

via customize-variable, which sets this in my custom-set-variables in my .emacs:

,----
|  '(org-super-agenda-groups
|    '((:name "Schedule" :time-grid t :transformer
|             (--> it
|                  (propertize it 'face
|                              '(:foreground "yellow"))))
|      (:name "Important" :priority "A")
|      (:name "POLMAG" :tag "polmag")
|      (:name "Astrophysics" :tag
|             ("astrophysics"))
|      (:name "Personal" :tag "personal")
|      (:priority<= "B" :order 1)))
`----
     
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Re: org-super-agenda global list of TODO items

[Ihor Radchenko]

Angel de Vicente <angel.vicente.garrido@gmail.com> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> How do you customize your org-super-agenda-groups variable?
>
> via customize-variable, which sets this in my custom-set-variables in my .emacs:
>
> ,----
> |  '(org-super-agenda-groups
> |    '((:name "Schedule" :time-grid t :transformer
> |             (--> it
> |                  (propertize it 'face
> |                              '(:foreground "yellow"))))
> |      (:name "Important" :priority "A")
> |      (:name "POLMAG" :tag "polmag")
> |      (:name "Astrophysics" :tag
> |             ("astrophysics"))
> |      (:name "Personal" :tag "personal")
> |      (:priority<= "B" :order 1)))
> `----

This looks correct. The only suspicious group is the one with
:time-grid. Time grid is not supported in todo list by vanilla
org-agenda. I am not sure how well org-super-agenda handles it.

I'd try to remove the "Schedule" group for TODO agenda. If it helps the
situation, you may consider reporting the issue to org-super-agenda
author at https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda/

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Re: org-super-agenda global list of TODO items

[Angel de Vicente]

Hello,

> This looks correct. The only suspicious group is the one with
> :time-grid. Time grid is not supported in todo list by vanilla
> org-agenda. I am not sure how well org-super-agenda handles it.
>
> I'd try to remove the "Schedule" group for TODO agenda. If it helps the
> situation, you may consider reporting the issue to org-super-agenda
> author at https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda/

thanks for the help. It turns out that this was already an issue in
org-super-agenda
(https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda/issues/212). User tuh8888
provided a possible fix
(https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda/pull/221), which has not
been accepted yet since apparently perhaps it can break other things,
but in my case it looks like it is working just fine, so I'll risk it
:-)

Cheers,
-- 
Ángel de Vicente
 Research Software Engineer (Supercomputing and BigData)
 Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (https://www.iac.es/en)

Re: org-super-agenda global list of TODO items

[Christophe Schockaert]

On 2022-09-13 20:55, Angel de Vicente wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> This looks correct. The only suspicious group is the one with
>> :time-grid. Time grid is not supported in todo list by vanilla
>> org-agenda. I am not sure how well org-super-agenda handles it.
>> 
>> I'd try to remove the "Schedule" group for TODO agenda. If it helps 
>> the
>> situation, you may consider reporting the issue to org-super-agenda
>> author at https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda/
> 
> thanks for the help. It turns out that this was already an issue in
> org-super-agenda
> (https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda/issues/212). User 
> tuh8888
> provided a possible fix
> (https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda/pull/221), which has not
> been accepted yet since apparently perhaps it can break other things,
> but in my case it looks like it is working just fine, so I'll risk it
> :-)
> 
> Cheers,

Hi,


Thank you for pointing this bug report.
I encountered the same myself, but if I remember correctly, I went 
through it another way, so I was not sure it was expected to work this 
way.

If I am right (I am playing with the config, it’s not in my daily setup 
yet for now), I could achieve this by defining 
"org-agenda-custom-commands" as shown in the "Projects" example : 
https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda/blob/master/examples.org#projects.

In that case, "org-super-agenda-groups" is defined differently according 
to the context, so the "time-grid" captures the timed entries in its 
scope. Then, "org-super-agenda-groups" applies to the TODOs in the 
"todo" or "alltodo" context (I used the latter one) where I don’t define 
the "time-grid" selection. Or, maybe I applied it to the "alltodo" only, 
and discarded it for the agenda grid to work only on the TODOs. I don’t 
remember exactly, however this might be a workaround to try that does 
not need an update of the code, especially if it is not expected to be 
stable and supported by the author.


Sincerely,

Christophe

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Re: org-super-agenda global list of TODO items

[Angel de Vicente]

Hello,

Christophe Schockaert <R3vLibre@citadels.eu> writes:

> If I am right (I am playing with the config, it’s not in my daily setup yet for
> now), I could achieve this by defining "org-agenda-custom-commands" as shown in
> the "Projects" example :
> https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda/blob/master/examples.org#projects.
>
> In that case, "org-super-agenda-groups" is defined differently according to the
> context, so the "time-grid" captures the timed entries in its scope. Then,
> "org-super-agenda-groups" applies to the TODOs in the "todo" or "alltodo"
> context (I used the latter one) where I don’t define the "time-grid"
> selection. Or, maybe I applied it to the "alltodo" only, and discarded it for
> the agenda grid to work only on the TODOs. I don’t remember exactly, however
> this might be a workaround to try that does not need an update of the code,
> especially if it is not expected to be stable and supported by the author.

great. That looks very promising, and without the need to change the
source code. I will try it later on and report back.

Cheers,
-- 
Ángel de Vicente
 Research Software Engineer (Supercomputing and BigData)
 Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (https://www.iac.es/en)

Re: org-super-agenda global list of TODO items

[Angel de Vicente]

Hello,

Angel de Vicente <angel.vicente.garrido@gmail.com> writes:

> great. That looks very promising, and without the need to change the
> source code. I will try it later on and report back.

I ended up with this (and going back to unmodified source code for
org-super-agenda, and it now works beautifully. 

,----
| (setq own-agenda-groups '((:name "Efemerides" :tag "efemerides" :order 1)
|                          (:name "IMPORTANT" :priority "A" :transformer
|                                 (--> it
|                                      (propertize it 'face
|                                                  '(:foreground "red" :background "green")))
|                                 :order 1)
|                          (:name "Astrophysics" :tag "astrophysics" :order 3)
|                          (:name "Hacking" :tag "hacking" :order 3)
|                          (:name "Admin" :tag "admin" :order 4)))
| 
| (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
|       '(("h" "Agenda and tasks"
| 	 ((agenda "" ((org-super-agenda-groups
|                        (append
|                         '((:todo "DONE" :discard)
|                           (:name "Schedule" :time-grid t :transformer
|                                  (--> it
|                                       (propertize it 'face
|                                                   '(:foreground "yellow")))))
|                         own-agenda-groups))))
|           (alltodo "" ((org-super-agenda-groups
|                         (append
|                          '((:todo "DONE" :discard))
|                          own-agenda-groups))))))))                  
`----

Many thanks,
-- 
Ángel de Vicente
 Research Software Engineer (Supercomputing and BigData)
 Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (https://www.iac.es/en)