Re: Simplifying the weekly agenda a tiny bit, howto?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Hi, Org friends.  Here is an (edited) copy of my weekly agenda:
>
>
> Week-agenda (W29):
> Lundi      15 Juillet 2013 W29
> Mardi      16 Juillet 2013
> Mercredi   17 Juillet 2013
> Jeudi      18 Juillet 2013
>   notes:      In   1 d.:  TODO *Some meeting
>   Automobile: In   4 d.:  TODO Another thing
>   [...]
> Vendredi   19 Juillet 2013
>   notes:      20:30...... Deadline:   TODO *Some meeting
> Samedi     20 Juillet 2013
> Dimanche   21 Juillet 2013
>   [...]
>
>
> The Vendredi (Friday) lines is clearly shown in red (yet in the quote
> above, it is likely shown in black and white!).  So the Jeudi (Thursday)
> reference to the same activity is superfluous to me.  I wonder if there
> is a (simple) way to inhibit, in a weekly agenda, any announced activity
> which appears later down in the same agenda.
>
> François

First of all, if your event is a meeting, it should only be timestamped,
not deadlined or scheduled. Then it will just show up where it's
supposed to, and not before (or after). It probably shouldn't even be a
TODO.

Otherwise, scheduled TODOs show up on their schedule, and deadlined
TODOs show up on their deadline, and also today's agenda, if you're
coming up on the deadline. There are a host of variables that change how
a TODO is displayed depending on whether it has a
schedule/deadline/timestamp, or one and not the others, or `how close
you are to it, etc. Check out variables starting org-agenda-skip-*,
org-agenda-ignore-*, org-agenda-include-*, org-deadline-*,
org-scheduled-*, there are plenty of ways of screening out TODOs that
you don't want to see until you're supposed to see them.

Hope that helps,
Eric