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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Switching between many contexts
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:34:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdqrrcxw.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20524da70903021021m3403e57etf9b796aab7371a73@mail.gmail.com> (Samuel Wales's message of "Mon\, 2 Mar 2009 11\:21\:08 -0700")

Assign a FLUFF tag to your tasks then run the agenda normally and remove
the fluff with

/ - TAB FLUFF RET

or if you do that often set up org-tags-alist with F for FLUFF and just

/ - F

-Bernt


Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> I've been wondering about something similar.  Suppose you have a bunch
> of important tasks and a bunch of fluff tasks.  It might be useful to
> be able to have the "agenda" item in org-agenda-custom-commands accept
> a tags search so that you can use :fluff: on the fluff tasks and
> assign a key for everything except :fluff: tasks.  I was going to wait
> until after the Lisp syntax for searches was implemented and for me to
> get more experience before suggesting it.  In any case, it looks like
> the same kind of thing with categories?
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:03, Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi. I have this scenario: I track several projects in a single file, each in its own level-1 section, but each week I'm working only on one project.
>>  In my agenda (C-a a) I'm currently seeing scheduled tasks from all projects, and I would like to exclude all projects but one.
>>  I recently added a CATEGORY property to each section.
>>
>>
>>  My questions are:
>>
>> 1. How can I exclude a category from the agenda view?
>>   Probably with key \ TAB CATEGORY="something", but I can't make it work and I'm confused by the many types of searches that are referred to in the manual.
>>
>> 2. How can I create an agenda view that looks like the normal agenda, but ignores some categories? (at least on that file).
>>
>> 3. Do you implement this scenario in other ways? For instance, one can add the COMMENT keyword the unwanted projects, use different files, close all old tasks after each context switch, use other tags, …
>>
>>
>>  Thanks,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-02 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-02 18:03 Switching between many contexts Daniel Clemente
2009-03-02 18:21 ` Samuel Wales
2009-03-02 18:34   ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2009-03-03 11:27     ` Daniel Clemente
2009-03-03 13:05       ` Matthew Lundin
2009-03-03 13:31         ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-03  6:20           ` Manuel Hermenegildo
2009-03-04  6:17           ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-04 10:01             ` Daniel Clemente
2009-03-05 18:41           ` Auto-saving/loading files (without prompts) David Thole
2009-03-06 15:21             ` Jason F. McBrayer
2009-03-02 18:31 ` Switching between many contexts Bernt Hansen
2009-03-02 21:47 ` Matthew Lundin

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