Re: Workflow for planning and scheduling tasks with org mode

[Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>]

(re-sending, forgot to copy to the list)

Hi, Ashish,

You may get more specific advice if you exxplain exactly in what way
org-agenda seems to fail for you, i.e. what you expect to see and what
happens.

From what you say, it sounds as if you have items in your file
agenda.org that you expect to show up in the Agenda view when you run
org-agenda, but they don't unless you do "C-c [" on the file. That
should not be the case.

What value have you set for org-agenda-files in your init file?

Note that if the value is set to a single file name instead of a list of
files, Org-mode will treat that single file as a source of file names.

So if you keep all your todo items in a single file called agenda.org,
setting it to a one-item list like this should work:

:  (setq 'org-agenda-files '("/home/username/agenda.org"))

But if you set it to a value like this,

:  (setq 'org-agenda-files "/home/username/agenda.org")

it might not behave as you expect. (Ditto for custom-set-variables if
that's where you initialize it.)


Yours,
Christian


Ashish Panigrahi <public@ashishpanigrahi.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am fairly new to org and was wondering what are the common workflows that people follow for planning and scheduling with
> org-mode.
>
> Currently I have one file called agenda.org to which I write a top level header for the week that I'm planning tasks for, followed by the
> tasks with the TODO keyword in front of the tasks. Still trying to figure out org-agenda as it often seems to fail me (or perhaps I've not
> understood the exact working behind it) but I often find myself pressing "C-x [" to bring agenda.org to the front of the agenda list,
> after which I can see my org agenda.
>
> Also, has anyone been able to make evil work with org-agenda? Thanks.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ashish