Re: Filtering for effort in org-agenda

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>>
>> I was looking for a way to select tasks with no effort so I could
>> define
>> an effort before working on them.
>>
>> I'd like to retain the ability to find tasks with no effort easily.
>> There's probably a better solution that the one I came up with.
>
> Are you doing this now using filtering for effort, or a property
> search for Effort?

I'm using filtering for effort.

I'm doing this from the agenda currently - getting a list of todo tasks,
limiting to tasks with tag NEXT and then further limiting it to effort
times <0 using the standard agenda effort filter


          List of all TODO entries (excluding dated items)
         /   Limit to NEXT tagged tasks
        /   /     Limit to effort <= 0
       /   /     /
C-c a t / N / + 1

-Bernt

>
> - Carsten
>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> commit dc438851021ba340bbff3462671e2b142ff6bdbf
>> Author: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
>> Date:   Tue Nov 11 06:56:32 2008 +0100
>>
>>    Treat no effort defined as 0 minutes.
>>
>>    Bernt Hanses writes:
>>
>>    This changes the default value for Effort during agenda filtering
>> so
>>    that an undefined Effort value is treated as 0 instead of nil.
>> Tasks
>>    with no effort defined now return zero effort when selecting
>> tasks for
>>    the filter.
>>
>>    There was effectively no way to select 'tasks with no effort
>> defined'
>>    using the agenda effort filter.  The '<' operator is interpreted as
>>    '<=' and the default effort selection defined in
>>    org-agenda-filter-by-tag starts with zero ("0 0:10 ...") so this
>>    change just treats tasks with no effort defined the same as tasks
>> with
>>    an effort of 0.
>>
>>    This allows fast selection of NEXT tasks with no effort defined.
>>    Column view with follow-mode active in the agenda is great for
>> quickly
>>    filling in the agenda estimated effort values for tasks.  Just
>> display
>>    your Next tasks, then / 0 to select tasks with no effort and enter
>>    column mode (C-c C-x C-c) and fill in your effort values with the
>>    quick keys (0-9) for all of the tasks that have blanks in the
>> effort
>>    column.
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