Re: Gantt Chart with org-mode

On 2023-11-04 13:30, Heime wrote: Can one construct a Gantt Chart with org-mode ? Although I didn’t try it yet, there is Elgantt hat caught my eyes : https://github.com/legalnonsense/elgantt Have a good day and nice Org discoveries, Christophe

Re: Suggested Syntax for cancelled checkboxes: [-] as non-blocking dependency

On 2022-09-14 14:43, Ihor Radchenko wrote: Karl Voit writes: So, to me the main use case to have an explicit cancel, is when I have a long list, and to remember that I stated it as "cancelled". If we go that way, having no other nice idea at the moment, I quite like the [C] which is

Re: org-super-agenda global list of TODO items

On 2022-09-13 20:55, Angel de Vicente wrote: Hello, This looks correct. The only suspicious group is the one with :time-grid. Time grid is not supported in todo list by vanilla org-agenda. I am not sure how well org-super-agenda handles it. I'd try to remove the "Schedule" group for TODO

Re: Suggested Syntax for cancelled checkboxes: [-] as non-blocking dependency

On 2022-09-13 10:07, Karl Voit wrote: Hi Ihor, * Ihor Radchenko wrote: Karl Voit writes: I was using list checkboxes like that: - [ ] open task - [X] closed task - [-] cancelled task From the manual (5.6 Checkboxes): ‘C-c C-x C-b’ (‘org-toggle-checkbox’) Toggle checkbox status

Cascading Org-Capture templates

Hi Org Fellows, I am revisiting my Org workflow, and I feel like that in order to make it the way I wish, I need to cascade capture templates. And after trying several approaches, I am not able to make it work. I know about the "don’t use every extra Org features", but this is what I came

Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode

On 2021-11-29 03:33, Michael Ashton wrote: On Nov 28, 2021, at 6:22 PM, Jim Porter wrote: On 11/28/2021 11:46 AM, Karl Voit wrote: At this year's EmascsConf, I had a 12 minute video where I explain why we do need a different name for the syntax of Org-mode in contrast to the Elisp

[O] Using org-table-get-remote-range to sum cells or assign a range

Hi Org fellows, I would like to make use of "org-table-get-remote-range()" to write a spreadsheet formula since I learned I could get more flexibility than with the standard "remote()" way. Actually, I need to use some variables to reach a set of cells. However, I can't get to where I want

Re: [O] [POLL] Should Org tempo be enabled by default? (expand templates thru e.g. "<s[TAB]")

Alan Tyree writes: > [...] > > Here is a question: I see specialised snippet packages in the ELPA > respositories. Is it possible to provide snippets that reproduce the > existing "Easy Templates", maybe even keep the same key bindings so that > the change is transparent to the users that are

Re: [O] Tracking Interruptions -- Work Flow Question

Raymond Zeitler writes: > Does anyone schedule and "org-clock" interruptions? I really need to quantify > how much of a drain they are to my productivity. > I thought I'd include a generic "** TODO Interruption" in my todo.org (or an > inter.org file) and schedule it every day. Then I'd press

Re: [O] Properties ID vs. CUSTOM_ID

Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Carsten Dominik writes: > >> Dear all, >> >> before continuing this discussion, and before reinventing, you might >> want to take a look at how org-id.el currently does create unique IDs. >> [...] >> Hope this helps. > > Right, and we're not trying to

Re: [O] Properties ID vs. CUSTOM_ID

Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Karl Voit writes: > >> I'd prefer using manually written :ID: instead since migration would >> not be trivial to me. > > You could also use the `org-property-set-functions-alist' trick with the > :ID: property. If you added an "ID" entry to that

Re: [O] Properties ID vs. CUSTOM_ID

John Kitchin writes: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Karl Voit wrote: > >> * John Kitchin wrote: >> > >> > There is not an issue using a human-readable id in :ID: as long as it is >> > unique. It will store fine, link fine, etc... >> >> I also

Re: [O] org-depend: dependencies between TODO entries in different files

Hi all, Karl Voit writes: > Oh my goodness - free wishes for org-depend? Christmas is rather > early this year! ;-) Indeed, that's wonderful ^^ > OK, let's do some brain storming ... As a summary from my sight point, I am totally inline with Karl for the feature set: - Personnally, I am

Re: [O] org-depend: dependencies between TODO entries in different files

Carsten Dominik writes: > Hi, > > I can take a look at that. Unless Nicolas already is working on it, of > course. > > [...] Is anyone besides Karl using it regularly? I don't want to > break anything by changing it. Hi Carsten, I started to use it a few months ago, and I am using it more

Re: [O] Several %(expression) in org-agenda-prefix-format

Nick Dokos writes: > laurent.jucqu...@posteo.de writes: > >> Hi Christophe, >> >> Thanks for the pointer! >> >> I had already tried this solution but I wasn't entirely satisfied >> because of alignment reasons. >> [...] > Can't you use something like: > >(format "%-40s" (concat ...)) > > ?

Re: [O] Detect parent with SCHEDULED or DEADLINE

Adam Porter writes: > Christophe Schockaert <r3vli...@citadels.eu> writes: > >> (save-excursion >> (save-restriction >> (widen) > > Hi Christophe, > > Thanks for sharing the solution! Here's something you might want to add > to i

Re: [O] Several %(expression) in org-agenda-prefix-format

laurent.jucqu...@posteo.de writes: > Hi list, > > I'm trying to setup some custom agenda views that would be useful for my > work but i'm unable to define a custom org-agenda-prefix-format with > several %expression successfully. > [...] > I've come up with the following (mal-functionning) >

Re: [O] Detect parent with SCHEDULED or DEADLINE

Christophe Schockaert writes: > Nicolas Goaziou writes: > >> Adam Porter <a...@alphapapa.net> writes: [...] > Thank you Adam and Nicolas for your answers, > [...] > I could rewrite my function using 'org-up-heading-safe' and > 'org-entry-get', and it gets the expe

Re: [O] Detect parent with SCHEDULED or DEADLINE

Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Adam Porter writes: > >> Ah, I see. So I guess the solution to Christophe's issue is to use >> this: >> >> #+BEGIN_SRC elisp [...] >> (inherited-scheduled (org-entry-get "SCHEDULED" t)) [...] >> #+END_SRC > > I don't think so. You cannot

[O] Detect parent with SCHEDULED or DEADLINE

Hi fellow org-moders, I am seeking to list all actions in "NEXT" state that are not planned yet (scheduled, deadline or planning tag such as WEEK, MONTH, and other well known :). I will consider as planned an action which is in a subtree of a parent action which is itself planned. That's easy

Re: [O] %? has no effect for org-agenda-prefix-format

Markus Heller writes: > Excerpt from describe-variable org-agenda-prefix-format: > > If the first character after `%' is a question mark, the entire field > will only be included if the corresponding value applies to the current > entry. [...] > > [...] > Here's the definition of

Re: [O] Finding TODOs without SCHEDULED and DEADLINE?

Martin writes: > Hi there, > > I would like to create an agenda view for all my TODO elements in my > agenda files where I didn't set any SCHEDULED or DEADLINE marks. > > How can I do that? > Thanks, > Martin Hi Martin, I would do that with a "tags-todo" entry: ((agenda "" (tags-todo

Re: [O] Displaying property values in agenda search result

Markus Heller writes: > Hello, > > how can I display property values in the agenda, more specifically, in > the results of an agenda search? > > [...] > > I search using the following in my .emacs as part of a custom agenda > command: > > ("i" "Text here" tags "CATEGORY=\"foo\"" >