Re: [Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM, David Mausmaus.da...@gmail.com wrote: At Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:04:39 -0400, Christopher League wrote: I would love to be able to sort TODOs by their age, so it becomes painfully obvious what I have been ignoring. Since org relies on free- form text (a strength), it's tricky to ensure that every item gets a 'creation-time' property. But it doesn't need to be accurate to the second; even a script that added that property once every day or so might do the trick. Well, I'm not a elisp hacker but what comes into my mind is a custom function that does: for all headlines with a TODO keyword * check if property creation-time exists * add propertie creation time with current date time if such an propertie does not exist and then hook this function into before-save-hook. So the question is (a) if there are functions to process all items, check for existence of a property and create properties (I'm quite certain there are) and (b) how to use them. There are property and mapping APIs documented in the manual under section on hacking. -- 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
Re: [Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age
At Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:40:21 +0530, Manish wrote: There are property and mapping APIs documented in the manual under section on hacking. And what a fun it is to train my elisp skills. A first hack that seems to work: (defun dmj/org-assure-creation-property () Process all orgmode entries of current buffer that do not match a defined search string (interactive) (org-map-entries 'dmj/org-insert-creation-property +Creation_Time=\\) ) (defun dmj/org-insert-creation-property () Insert Creation-Property in Orgmode entry at point (let ((stamp (format-time-string (cdr org-time-stamp-formats) (current-time (setq stamp (concat [ (substring stamp 1 -1) ])) (org-entry-put (point-marker) Creation_Time stamp)) ) The first function (dmj/assure-creation-property) processes every entry in current buffer that match the search query Creation_Time=, i.e. entries with an empty or no Creation_Time property at all and calls dmj/org-insert-creation-property to insert a Creation_Time property with the current time into this entry. The tag search query should be refined to only match headlines with (certain) TODO keywords. The first function is defined as interactive so you can call it via M-x -- and of course this is just a fast hack with no warranty at all. Regards -- David -- OpenPGP... 0x316F4BE4670716FD Jabber dmj...@jabber.org Email. maus.da...@gmail.com ICQ... 241051416 ___ 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
Re: [Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age
Christopher League lea...@contrapunctus.net writes: I would love to be able to sort TODOs by their age, so it becomes painfully obvious what I have been ignoring. Since org relies on free- form text (a strength), it's tricky to ensure that every item gets a creation-time' property. But it doesn't need to be accurate to the second; even a script that added that property once every day or so might do the trick. Check org-expiry.el in Org's contrib directory, it might do what you want. (I still need to write a tutorial about this.) -- Bastien ___ 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
Re: [Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age
David Maus maus.da...@gmail.com writes: At Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:40:21 +0530, Manish wrote: There are property and mapping APIs documented in the manual under section on hacking. And what a fun it is to train my elisp skills. A first hack that seems to work: (defun dmj/org-assure-creation-property () Process all orgmode entries of current buffer that do not match a defined search string (interactive) (org-map-entries 'dmj/org-insert-creation-property +Creation_Time=\\) ) (defun dmj/org-insert-creation-property () Insert Creation-Property in Orgmode entry at point (let ((stamp (format-time-string (cdr org-time-stamp-formats) (current-time (setq stamp (concat [ (substring stamp 1 -1) ])) (org-entry-put (point-marker) Creation_Time stamp)) ) The first function (dmj/assure-creation-property) processes every entry in current buffer that match the search query Creation_Time=, i.e. entries with an empty or no Creation_Time property at all and calls dmj/org-insert-creation-property to insert a Creation_Time property with the current time into this entry. Thanks for this David -- you might also have a look at the code in org-expiry.el. If there is anything there that you want to improve, please do so! -- Bastien ___ 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
[Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age
I would love to be able to sort TODOs by their age, so it becomes painfully obvious what I have been ignoring. Since org relies on free- form text (a strength), it's tricky to ensure that every item gets a 'creation-time' property. But it doesn't need to be accurate to the second; even a script that added that property once every day or so might do the trick. Since I commit my agenda files to git every day or so, I can actually get an approximation to this with git-blame... grep the TODO headlines, then sort by commit date. It's pretty hackish, and I'm not sure I want to go to the trouble of integrating that raw data with the agenda view, if there's a better way within org. Ideas? Thanks! Chris ___ 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
