On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:38 PM, George Pearson wrote: > I have been using org mode to great effect for a couple of months now > but there is one thing I have not been able to figure out how to do - > filtering what is shown in the weekly agenda. > > Naturally, when I'm DOING the tasks, I need to see everything scheduled > for the day. My problem is when I am SCHEDULING tasks for the week. > The weekly agenda shows me way more than I need to see when scheduling. > > My specific problem arises because every day I have a whole bunch of > recurring > tasks, each typically 10-20 minutes of effort. After these, I generally > have four hours per day available for tasks related to my big projects. > Unfortunately, the recurring tasks all appear in the weekly agenda, > making it a nuisance to find the days which are still available for > scheduling the big project tasks. But I have not been able to figure > out how to suppress the recurring task clutter in the weekly agenda view. > > I can see several possible approaches to filtering out the recurring > tasks (if such filtering is even possible in the weekly agenda): > 1. somehow use the fact that the task has a repeater > 2. use the category - right now the tasks are all in a "Recurring" > category > 3. mark each with a "recurring" tag and use that > 4. put the recurring in a different org file (I currently use just > one org file) > > By the way - when scheduling, I use a view of my org file in one emacs > frame and the weekly agenda (in column view, so I can see the "efforts") > in a second frame.
Since you already have efforts defined for your tasks, you could consider adding a block to your agenda for tasks that have "Effort>x" where x is the effort threshold. -- Manish _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
