Re: Displaying your Org agenda after idle time

[ross@rosslaird.com (Ross A. Laird)]

John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:

> I have the following snippet in my .emacs file, which I find very
> useful. Basically what it does is that if I don't touch my Emacs for 5
> minutes, it displays the current agenda. This keeps my tasks "always
> in mind" whenever I come back to Emacs after doing something else,
> whereas before I had a tendency to forget that it was there.
>
> John
>
> (defun jump-to-org-agenda ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((buf (get-buffer "*Org Agenda*"))
> 	wind)
>     (if buf
> 	(if (setq wind (get-buffer-window buf))
> 	    (select-window wind)
> 	  (if (called-interactively-p)
> 	      (progn
> 		(select-window (display-buffer buf t t))
> 		(org-fit-window-to-buffer)
> 		;; (org-agenda-redo)
> 		)
> 	    (with-selected-window (display-buffer buf)
> 	      (org-fit-window-to-buffer)
> 	      ;; (org-agenda-redo)
> 	      )))
>       (call-interactively 'org-agenda-list)))
>   ;;(let ((buf (get-buffer "*Calendar*")))
>   ;;  (unless (get-buffer-window buf)
>   ;;    (org-agenda-goto-calendar)))
>   )
>
> (run-with-idle-timer 300 t 'jump-to-org-agenda)
>

This is fantastically useful.
Thanks very much!

Ross

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