Re: exporting just timestamped entries from an agenda

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:44 AM,  <prayner@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> I keep my diary, action items, scheduled tasks etc in a single
> org-mode file. It contains things like:
>
> **  Norton my office <2015-03-11 Wed 10:00 +1w>
> ** TODO power  bill                                                    :home:
>    DEADLINE: <2015-12-29 Tue>
> ** TODO review business manager PD
>    SCHEDULED: <2015-12-27 Sun>
>
> and lots of others.
> I would like to share a version of my agenda for each week with colleagues, perhaps
> even interface it with the exchange web services used by my
> organization. The first task is to select only those entries with
> active timestamps that fall within the week.
> My first attempt is a tag-search query like:
> TIMESTAMP>"<-1d>"&TIMESTAMP<"<+7d>"
> but that doesn't pick up the repeated entries.
>
> The other approach I can see is agenda filtering. I can filter by tag
> and hence remove the entry with :home: but I can't see how to remove
> the item with a SCHEDULED date but no specific time to happen. Is
> there a simple workaround or should I use a richer set of tags to
> accomplish this?
> thanks again
> Peter

Your request reminded me of something I was trying to do at one point.
I thought it was something simlar for a custom agenda view, but after
a fair bit of searching, it was for a sparse tree filter for inactive
time stamps (active already existed). So, maybe there's a 3rd way you
could get the format/data you want from an org file?

Perhaps you could try the following on your file?
- C-c / (opens sparse tree search)
- press =c= to toggle to "only active timestamps"
- press =D= to trigger the date range search
- select your start/end range

If that works, maybe someone could help you automate it as some sort
of query function.

For a test, I created the following:

#+begin_example
* tasks
** todo 1
   SCHEDULED: <2015-12-23 Wed>
** todo 2
   DEADLINE: <2015-12-23 Wed>
** todo 3
[2015-12-23 Wed]
** todo 4
   SCHEDULED: <2015-12-30 Wed>
** todo 5
   DEADLINE: <2015-12-30 Wed>
** todo 6
[2015-12-30 Wed]
** todo 7
   SCHEDULED: <2016-01-06 Wed>
** todo 8
   DEADLINE: <2016-01-06 Wed>
** todo 9
[2016-01-06 Wed]
** todo 10
   SCHEDULED: <2016-01-13 Wed>
** todo 11
   DEADLINE: <2016-01-13 Wed>
** todo 12
[2016-01-13 Wed]
#+end_example


Using the method above and selecting 12/30 -> 1/6 yields:

#+begin_example
* tasks
** todo 4
   SCHEDULED: <2015-12-30 Wed>
** todo 5
   DEADLINE: <2015-12-30 Wed>
...
#+end_example


If I extend to 1/7, I get:

#+begin_example
* tasks
** todo 4
   SCHEDULED: <2015-12-30 Wed>
** todo 5
   DEADLINE: <2015-12-30 Wed>
...
** todo 7
   SCHEDULED: <2016-01-06 Wed>
** todo 8
   DEADLINE: <2016-01-06 Wed>
...
#+end_example


Would that work? I used =C-c C-x v= (copy visible text) to produce the
above. It doesn't actually copy the ellipses; I just added them to
reproduce what I see.


Hope that helps!
John


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