I have a simple block agenda view that I use with a script and conky to display as on my background. It's like so:
---------- (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '(("e" "Export" ((agenda "" ((org-agenda-ndays 7))) (todo "next" ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Next Actions"))))) )) ---------- I guess I must not usually use deadlines or schedules with next actions, as when I just did, the next action stopped being shown in that agenda view. Here are my todo-related options from .emacs: ---------- ;; todos (setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled (quote future)) (setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines (quote far)) (setq org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done t) (setq org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done t) (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "todo(t)" "next(n)" "proj(p)" "|" "waiting(w@/@)" "done(d)" "cancelled(c@/@)"))) ---------- Turning off both todo-ignore-scheduled and todo-ignore-deadlines above produces the same effect. Removing the scheduled or deadlined date settings from the headlines shows it in the agenda view as expected. I also looked at the org-agenda-skip-entry-if settings... the problem is that I want *all* next todos to show, whether scheduled, deadlined or not. The settings seem mutually exclusive and I'm not sure what the default is. I did verify that using =org-agenda-entry-types'(:deadline)= works... I'm not sure why I need to do this. I assumed the default is that I want to see *all* of my listed entry types and only use a skip or limiting function if I want to. Thanks, John