Check out my multiple-agenda-buffers branch from http://github.com/7max/org-mode
Its designed exactly for that (multiple independent agenda buffers living together). to enable it use, M-x org-toggle-sticky-agenda You will have to set different agenda names for different agenda views in your org-agenda-custom-commands variable like so: (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '(("a" "Agenda and NEXT (priority)" ((agenda "" ((org-agenda-span 'day))) (tags-todo "/!NEXT" ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Next Tasks") (org-agenda-tags-todo-honor-ignore-options t) (org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled t) (org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines t) (org-tags-match-list-sublevels t) (org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down category-keep))))) ((org-agenda-buffer-name "*Agenda*"))) ("t" "TODO entries" todo "" ((org-agenda-buffer-name "*Todo List*"))))) Carsten suggested that this will eventually get merged, but I think people may be afraid, as it's a bit of a major change, converting most agenda related variables to buffer local, and at least initially had a several bugs, which took me a few weeks to catch and fix. But I've been running on this branch for a month+, and quality of my org-moding had greatly improved, since now all my agendas pop-out immediately instead of rebuilding for several seconds. At Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:38:39 -0600, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > > Hey guys, > > So, I would like to keep a sort of dashboard in a osx virtual desktop - > basically having emacs frames with different todo lists > for reference at quick glance: > > http://minus.com/mlgjv21R4 > > The problem is that the agenda is global to the emacs instance and won't > allow me to show a filter view in one frame and another > in the other (i.e: One frame showing all my personal TODOs and the other > showing all TODOs related to my job.). > > I could have those lists in separate files, but my configuration now has all > todos in a big gtd.org file. > > Is there a way to have differente filters in different frames? If not, any > thoughts on how I could accomplish this idea? > > Thanks, > > Marcelo. > >