"Recent items" Agenda view?

"Recent items" Agenda view?

[Martin Beck]

Hi,

I'm often having the problem that I want to quickly attach an information to
an item I've created or I've been working on during the last days and then
have to invoke a keyword search.

How could I create an agenda with a list of headlines which have any
timestamp in the last 7 days (as they were created, clocked, changed their
status etc.?), sorted by the most recent timestamp?

Thanks a lot,
kind regards

Martin

Re: "Recent items" Agenda view?

[Eric S Fraga]

Martin Beck <elwood151@web.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm often having the problem that I want to quickly attach an information to
> an item I've created or I've been working on during the last days and then
> have to invoke a keyword search.
>
> How could I create an agenda with a list of headlines which have any
> timestamp in the last 7 days (as they were created, clocked, changed their
> status etc.?), sorted by the most recent timestamp?

I don't know how to do this in an agenda view (although I'm sure, given
that we are talking about org, that it is possible :-) but you can use a
sparse view (org-sparse-tree, C-c /) to get what you want for any given
file.

I found I needed to change the default date option to "all timestamps"
in the menu that comes up with org-sparse-tree to get the kind of output
I think you want.
-- 
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.50.1, Org release_8.2.1-86-gbe3dad

Re: "Recent items" Agenda view?

[Martin Beck]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga <at> ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> 
> Martin Beck <elwood151 <at> web.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm often having the problem that I want to quickly attach an information to
> > an item I've created or I've been working on during the last days and then
> > have to invoke a keyword search.
> >
> > How could I create an agenda with a list of headlines which have any
> > timestamp in the last 7 days (as they were created, clocked, changed their
> > status etc.?), sorted by the most recent timestamp?
> 
> I don't know how to do this in an agenda view (although I'm sure, given
> that we are talking about org, that it is possible  but you can use a
> sparse view (org-sparse-tree, C-c /) to get what you want for any given
> file.
> 
> I found I needed to change the default date option to "all timestamps"
> in the menu that comes up with org-sparse-tree to get the kind of output
> I think you want.


Thanks - great to know about that very useful possibility! I've not been
working with sparse trees yet, but I'll certainly do more often now.

For my purpose I would have to jump to the right org-file first (I have many
of them), so Samuel's Agenda solution below fits better.

Martin

Re: "Recent items" Agenda view?

[Samuel Wales]

On 10/11/13, Martin Beck <elwood151@web.de> wrote:
> I'm often having the problem that I want to quickly attach an information
> to
> an item I've created or I've been working on during the last days and then
> have to invoke a keyword search.
>
> How could I create an agenda with a list of headlines which have any
> timestamp in the last 7 days (as they were created, clocked, changed their
> status etc.?), sorted by the most recent timestamp?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> kind regards
>
> Martin

Something like this:

(setq org-agenda-inactive-leader "Inactive:  ")
(setq org-agenda-include-inactive-timestamps t)

Custom command:

          ("ip" "past 7d"
           ;; faster than tags
           agenda ""
           ((org-agenda-start-day "-7d")
            (org-agenda-span 7)
            (org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all nil)
            ;; %s is only for agenda views
            ;; (org-agenda-prefix-format "%s")
            ;; maybe not make much difference ka
            ;; (org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance nil)
            ))

===

Samuel

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[Martin Beck]

Samuel Wales <samologist <at> gmail.com> writes:

> (setq org-agenda-inactive-leader "Inactive:  ")
> (setq org-agenda-include-inactive-timestamps t)
> 
> Custom command:
> 
>           ("ip" "past 7d"
>            ;; faster than tags
>            agenda ""
>            ((org-agenda-start-day "-7d")
>             (org-agenda-span 7)
>             (org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all nil)
>             ;; %s is only for agenda views
>             ;; (org-agenda-prefix-format "%s")
>             ;; maybe not make much difference ka
>             ;; (org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance nil)
>             ))
> 
> ===
> 
> Samuel
> 

great - thanks a lot. I'll test that for some time, but it seems to do what
I need.
Just the list created is very long.

Would it be possible to limit it to inactive timestamps only?

Martin