Re: Frames and the agenda

[Max Mikhanosha <max@openchat.com>]

Check out my multiple-agenda-buffers branch from http://github.com/7max/org-mode

Its designed exactly for that (multiple independent agenda buffers
living together). to enable it use, M-x org-toggle-sticky-agenda

You will have to set different agenda names for different agenda views
in your org-agenda-custom-commands variable like so:

 (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
       '(("a" "Agenda and NEXT (priority)"
          ((agenda ""
                   ((org-agenda-span 'day)))
           (tags-todo "/!NEXT"
                      ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Next Tasks")
                       (org-agenda-tags-todo-honor-ignore-options t)
                       (org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled t)
                       (org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines t)
                       (org-tags-match-list-sublevels t)
                       (org-agenda-sorting-strategy
                        '(priority-down category-keep)))))
          ((org-agenda-buffer-name "*Agenda*")))
         ("t" "TODO entries"
          todo ""
          ((org-agenda-buffer-name "*Todo List*")))))

Carsten suggested that this will eventually get merged, but I think
people may be afraid, as it's a bit of a major change, converting most
agenda related variables to buffer local, and at least initially had a
several bugs, which took me a few weeks to catch and fix.

But I've been running on this branch for a month+, and quality of
my org-moding had greatly improved, since now all my agendas pop-out
immediately instead of rebuilding for several seconds.

At Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:38:39 -0600,
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> So, I would like to keep a sort of dashboard in a osx virtual desktop - basically having emacs frames with different todo lists
> for reference at quick glance:
> 
> http://minus.com/mlgjv21R4
> 
> The problem is that the agenda is global to the emacs instance and won't allow me to show a filter view in one frame and another
> in the other (i.e: One frame showing all my personal TODOs and the other showing all TODOs related to my job.). 
> 
> I could have those lists in separate files, but my configuration now has all todos in a big gtd.org file.
> 
> Is there a way to have differente filters in different frames? If not, any thoughts on how I could accomplish this idea?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marcelo.
> 
>