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From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
Subject: Re: Possible to exclude/include tags for agenda custom commands?
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:05:24 -0600
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Stig Brautaset <stig@brautaset.org> writes:

> Hi Bastien,
>
> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>>> I can easily do this in the list of TODOs, with a tag search. However, I
>>> haven't figured out how to do this for the agenda. Is it possible? If
>>> so, how?
>>
>> From what I understand, check `org-agenda-tag-filter' to see how to
>> use it within an agenda custom command.
>
> Thank you! That did indeed do it. 
>
> FWIW my stanza looks like this now:
>
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>      '(("w" "Work Agenda"
>         ((agenda "" ((org-agenda-span 'day)))
>          (todo "TODO"
>                ((org-agenda-max-entries 5)
>                 (org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 'all)
>                 (org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines 'all)
>                 (org-agenda-todo-ignore-timestamp 'all))))
>         ((org-agenda-tag-filter '("-@home" "-MAYBE"))))
>        ("h" "Home Agenda"
>         ((agenda "")
>          (todo "TODO"
>                ((org-agenda-max-entries 5)
>                 (org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 'all)
>                 (org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines 'all)
>                 (org-agenda-todo-ignore-timestamp 'all))))
>         ((org-agenda-tag-filter '("-@work" "-MAYBE"))))
>        ("m" "Maybe"
>         ((todo "PROJ")
>          (tags-todo "-PROJ/TODO"))
>         ((org-agenda-tag-filter '("MAYBE"))))
>        ("P" "Projects" tags-todo "-MAYBE/PROJ"))))
>        
> Stig

Hi Stig,

Thanks for sharing that.  I think this is a fairly common question among
Org users, yet not always easy to find the answer to, so I've added your
example here along with a couple of other solutions:

https://alphapapa.github.io/org-almanac/#Exclude%20and%20include%20tags%20in%20custom%20Agenda%20commands