I have been working on learning and playing with some lisp and looking through the amazing powerfulness of orgmode. This is my new favorite agenda command. I use it as the right hand side of my startup buffers (I have two). On the left I have my refile.org file (the "I am not sure where I am putting this item but I need a container for it") that is a temporary storage buffer I need to try to keep empty except for my refile headlines and a dynamic block showing recently updated files. On the right is the following calendar, gives me a good overview. Of course for some users the deadline warning days might need to be smaller for unscheduled deadlines.
Thanks for all the help and good ideas I have seen flowing through the list that has helped me get to where I can start hacking orgmode to be what I want/need it to be. Matt ----------cut here----------cut here-------------start-------- '(org-agenda-custom-commands (quote ( ("s" "Startup View" ( (agenda "" ;;short calendar '(org-agenda-ndays 2) ;; Number of Days of Agenda Calendar to Display '(org-deadline-warning-days 7)) ;; Show all deadlines for next week (agenda "" ;; how many days until an item is due if I haven't scheduled to work on it ((org-agenda-time-grid nil) (org-deadline-warning-days 365) ;; Shows all deadlines for next nnn days (org-agenda-entry-types '(:deadline)) ;; Look just for items if they have a deadline (org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'scheduled) ;; Skips items that are scheduled (org-agenda-ndays 1) ;; Show just today (org-agenda-overriding-header "Unscheduled upcoming deadlines:") ;;Meaningful name )) (todo "" '(org-agenda-overriding-header "Unscheduled No Deadline TODO: "));;TODO items not scheduled nor deadlined ))))) ----------cut here----------------cut here----------------end---------