Re: timeline of tags

[David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch>]

Hi Myles, 

thanks for this piece of code. I've integrated that into mine and it
seems to do exactly what I wanted to achieve.

many thanks
.d.


Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi David,
>
> david@belohrad.ch writes:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> could someone help me with following problem?
>>
>> - have multiple org files, where I tag by names, e.g. @Erik
>>
>> - I want to construct a timeline of all items having this tag through
>>   all the org files (as @Erik can be dispersed everywhere)
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> I use tag @Erik to note at which times my son has school holidays. Hence
>> one such entry would be e.g.:
>>
>> ** TODO erik autumn holidays					      :@Erik:
>>    :PROPERTIES:
>>    :ID:       26f5503f-3db6-481a-b384-395625e39333
>>    :END:
>> <2013-10-17 Thu>--<2013-10-27 Sun>
>>
>> there are many entries like this. Now, my wife asks me: I wonder when
>> Erik has holidays.
>>
>> I enter org-agenda, press 'm', type @Erik and voila - I get list of his
>> holidays (and other stuff). 
>>
>> Trouble is, that this list does not show it in timeline, but only
>> headings without these dates. Hence to get each datum I have to _open_
>> the item, which is not desired. 
>>
>> Any hint how to solve it?
>
> This is how I do something similar.  Essentially you treat an
> event/appointment differently to a task (TODO) and store it in the diary
> file (with the help of a capture template) so it looks like this:
>
> * 2013
> ** 2013-05-30 Thursday
> **** Might go fishing                                            :event:
> <2013-06-22 Sat>--<2013-06-23 Sun> [2013-05-30 Thu 23:57]
>
>
> and in the init file you have this:
>
>
> ;; not sure which of these are necessary:
> (setq org-agenda-include-diary t)
> (setq org-agenda-diary-file "~/org/org/diary.org")
>
> ;; so any time strings in the heading are shown in the agenda
> (setq org-agenda-insert-diary-extract-time t)
>
> (setq org-capture-templates (quote (
> 	    ("a" "  - Appointment (compulsory)" entry
> 	     (file+datetree (concat org-directory "/diary.org")) "* %? :appt:\n%^T %U %a")
> 	    ("e" "  - Event (optional)" entry
> 	     (file+datetree (concat org-directory "/diary.org")) "* %? :event:\n%^T %U %a"))))
>
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>       (quote (("v" "Events" agenda ""
> 	       ((org-agenda-span 28)
> 		(org-agenda-files '((concat org-directory "/diary.org")))))
>
>
> If your diary.org has at the top:
>
> #+FILETAGS: diary
>
>
> Then a C-a v gives you:
>
> Wednesday  19 June 2013
> Thursday   20 June 2013
> Friday     21 June 2013
>   Diary:       6:03...... Summer Solstice (BST)
> Saturday   22 June 2013
>   diary:      (1/2):  Might go fishing                       :diary::event:
> Sunday     23 June 2013
>   diary:      (2/2):  Might go fishing                       :diary::event:
> Monday     24 June 2013 W26
> Tuesday    25 June 2013
> Wednesday  26 June 2013
>
> Myles