Wow, cool to hear from the one & only Sacha!  

Also, I found this GTD blog which appears to have something similar, under
the "Filtering Projects and Actions" section:
https://emacs.cafe/emacs/orgmode/gtd/2017/06/30/orgmode-gtd.html

However, this  mechanism seems to report only the first TODO action
which is tagged with "@office" and (I presume) assumes that any headline
tagged @office is a "project".

Also, after reviewing Bernt Hansen's org-mode setup, it appears that
he uses NEXT keyword to distinguish between tasks that need to be done
(TODO) and tasks that can be accomplished NEXT.  This may obviate
the need to show the first X items of any given project.

So many options  . . . . . .

Thanks,
--Nate





On Wed., Jul. 31, 2019, 10:37 Nathan Neff, <nathan.neff@gmail.com> wrote:
I forgot to mention that I have PROJECT tag as not inheritable:
(setq org-tags-exclude-from-inheritance (quote ("PROJECT")))

And here's the agenda custom-command addition:
 ("2" "List projects with tasks" my/org-agenda-projects-and-tasks
         "+PROJECT"
         ((org-agenda-max-entries 3))



On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 9:32 PM Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,

I found this cool snippet at Sacha Chua's website: [1].  

It creates an agenda view with headings marked with tag "project",
and for each of those headings, it displays up to 3 sub headings marked TODO.

I like this idea of seeing my projects (plus a few TODO entries under each project)
in the agenda is a cool idea, so I copy/pasted the snippet at [1].

I created an example org file:
* Project 1                                                    :PROJECT:
** todo task 1.1
** todo task 1.2
** todo task 1.3
** todo task 1.4
* Project 2                                                    :PROJECT:
** todo task 2.1
** todo task 2.2
** todo task 2.3
** todo task 2.4

And ran the custom agenda command on only that file.

The output which is produced lists each project correctly.
However the sub-tasks under each project are the *same 3 subtasks*
from Project 1

  foo:        Project 1
  foo:        todo task 1.1
  foo:        todo task 1.2
  foo:        todo task 1.3
  foo:        Project 2
  foo:        todo task 1.1
  foo:        todo task 1.2
  foo:        todo task 1.3

The snippet at [1] is a bit more complex than I thought would be necessary for such
an agenda view.  Does someone have any snippets or suggestions for how to
accomplish the idea above?  Is there something obvious that I'm missing about
the setup of my test org file?

Thanks,
--Nate

The associated blog entry is: