On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Sam Cramer <samcramer@gmail.com> wrote:

The situation is one that arguably results from a lack of discipline on my part (hence my interest in org-mode!): I add TODO items to documents I'm writing without much regard as to how they fit into the overall structure of the file. In other words, my TODOs are generally "one-liners" which are sprinkled with abandon throughout the file.

Perhaps as I get more familiar with org-mode I will use TODOs in a more structured way, but right now they are not a structured list of tasks but rather a bunch of reminders distributed through a document.

Does that make things clearer?

It does make things clearer. Perhaps, then, the best solution is to just make sure your TODOs have no children, then? Or use the other suggestion for inline TODOs?

In your example, for example, wouldn't this work?

--------
* An amazing headline
** stuff
** more stuff
** TODO clean up the stuff above :noexport:

** this is stuff that I would like exported
--------

The TODO was directed at the stuff above anyway, so it perhaps doesn't need to be it's own main headline? The above works perfectly on export for me.

Yes, that works too. The only caveat is that if I later add a subordinate item to "more stuff" under the TODO, it won't export. Org-inlinetask.el or simply making the TODOs deeply nested without the help of org-inlinetask should solve that problem.

Thanks again for the help!

Sam

John

Sam

John

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Sam Cramer <samcramer@gmail.com> wrote:

When working on a document, I tend to sprinkle TODO headlines throughout the doc. These are really very loosely structured; they just represent things that I need to do somewhat near the area that I'm looking at.

I mark these lines with a :noexport: tag in order to prevent them from being exported. As such, they're not part of the document structure per-se, and I often mark them as top level headlines. Since EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS applies to a tree and not to a title, this prevents the export of any subordinate items.

Here's an example:

* An amazing headline
** stuff
** more stuff

* TODO clean up the stuff above :noexport:
** this is stuff that I would like exported

In the example above, I'd like to have the everything but the TODO headline exported, including the "this is stuff I would like exported" line.

I guess that I could always have my TODO lines be at a very deep level. Is there any other solution I should consider?

Thanks,
Sam

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