Re: Lazy project definitions

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

This works:

 ("p" "Projects" tags-todo "LEVEL=2/!-DONE-CANCELLED"
  ((org-agenda-skip-function
    '(org-agenda-skip-subtree-if 'notregexp "^\\*\\{3,\\}"))))
 ("o" "Other (non-project tasks)" tags "LEVEL=2/!-DONE-CANCELLED"
  ((org-agenda-skip-function
    '(org-agenda-skip-subtree-if 'regexp "^\\*\\{3,\\}"))))


Awesome!

Thanks Carsten!

-Bernt


Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Bernt,
>
> I guess you can use the regexp options, both in the stuck projects,
> and in a skipping condition for an agenda custom command.
>
> In the stuck project definition, adding "^\\*\\{3,\\}" as the 4th
> element should exclude anything that has level 3 or up in the subtree.
>
> for the agenda commands,
>
>    (org-skip-subtree-if 'regexp "\\*\\{3,\\}")
>
> or so should take care of it, am I right?
>
> - Carsten
>
> On for 16, 2010, at 11:17 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been using the definition that all LEVEL 2 tasks are projects
>> for a
>> long time.  Recently I tried switching to explicitly marked projects
>> using a :project: tag (or PROJECT keyword) but I really dislike having
>> to manually mark projects in my task lists.
>>
>> A project for me is basically any LEVEL 2 task that has one or more
>> subtasks.
>>
>> I would like to define my org stuck projects as LEVEL=2/!-DONE- 
>> CANCELLED
>> with an added skipping function that does not consider level 2 tasks
>> if
>> they have no children.  I can't figure out how to make this work in
>> the
>> org-agenda-custom-commands using the skipping function but I think it
>> should be possible.
>>
>> My goal here is to add 2 custom agenda commands:
>>  p - show me projects (level 2 tasks not completed with children)
>>  o - show me other (non-project) tasks (level 2 tasks without
>> children)
>>
>> I don't want the 'o' - other tasks listed in my stuck projects view
>> since these are really one-task items and are not a project by my
>> simplistic definition above.
>>
>> I've been using everything as a project that is defined at LEVEL 2 for
>> ages and that works really well for me -- except I want to stop
>> spending
>> any time dealing with simple (non-project) tasks when looking for next
>> tasks and stuck projects.  Sure I could manually mark my tasks as
>> projects but I don't think that should really be necessary for what I
>> want to do here... and if it could just say a LEVEL 2 task with
>> children
>> is a project it would work automagically for me without any additional
>> input.
>>
>> For simple non-project tasks I don't need to mark them as NEXT to make
>> them unstuck -- they aren't projects to begin with and I can have
>> a convenient way to view all of these simple non-project commands in
>> the
>> agenda using the 'o' custom command.
>>
>> Is there a way to this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bernt
>>
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