Re: pages properties in agenda

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Shepagh

On Apr 11, 2010, at 2:59 AM, Shelagh Manton wrote:

> I have been using the org-learning module in some study and while it  
> is
> quite useful as it is, I was thinking that I might improve my use by a
> special agenda command that could pull out and display a property.
>
> Use case:
>
> I use the org-learning to re-read sections of a book I am studying.  
> And
> so I have a :PAGES: property with the page numbers of the section I  
> am to
> read. Specially if I bomb out on remembering what I am supposed to  
> know!
>
> I was wondering if I could create a custom agenda command that would
> display the page numbers from that property so that I can just open  
> the
> book up at the relevant pages for immediate study instead of going  
> to the
> relevant todo, opening up the drawer and seeing what the page  
> numbers are?

No.

But you can create a sparse tree based on a tags match or however else  
you
can tell that you need to repeat that section.
Then switch to column view, and make sure the page number shows up in
the column view format.

HTH

- Carsten