On Thu, 6 Aug 2026, at 12:52, Earl Chase wrote: >> yes, but my media views and books are also todo > > My bad. But you still have multiple options. Personally, I do > something similar to you. I have a music file to track the albums that > I listen to. For this file I have the following in-buffer setting: > > #+SEQ_TODO: LISTEN | LISTENED > > I didn't think the usual TODO | DONE sequence fit for music. You could > do something similar for books/movies: > > #+SEQ_TODO: WATCH | WATCHED > > and > > #+SEQ_TODO: READ | DONE > > Then, you could filter for TODOs only by clicking "T" in the > org-agenda dispatcher menu and typing TODO. > > But that's just for listing todos. If you choose to set a separate > todo keyword sequence for your movies/book files, when you open the > full agenda view, which is what you see if you type "a", you can > filter for todos only by typing "/" and then typing "/TODO/" when you > are asked for a filter. > > You could also set a category for your movies/book files by putting > something like > > #+CATEGORY: media > > at the top of those files. Then, when you open the org-agenda > dispatcher menu, type "a" and then press "/", you can type in "-media" > when you are asked for a filter. That query will filter all entries > from your movies/book files. That's actually probably the simplest > option.
Thank you. That is a very reasonable approach I think. Completely unrelated: why do you use #+seq_todo instead of plain #+todo?
