Re: [Orgmode] filtering the weekly agenda

[Manish]

  On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:38 PM, George Pearson wrote:
  > I have been using org mode to great effect for a couple of months now
  > but there is one thing I have not been able to figure out how to do -
  > filtering what is shown in the weekly agenda.
  >
  > Naturally, when I'm DOING the tasks, I need to see everything scheduled
  > for the day.  My problem is when I am SCHEDULING tasks for the week.
  > The weekly agenda shows me way more than I need to see when scheduling.
  >
  > My specific problem arises because every day I have a whole bunch of
  > recurring
  > tasks, each typically 10-20 minutes of effort.  After these, I generally
  > have four hours per day available for tasks related to my big projects.
  > Unfortunately, the recurring tasks all appear in the weekly agenda,
  > making it a nuisance to find the days which are still available for
  > scheduling the big project tasks.  But I have not been able to figure
  > out how to suppress the recurring task clutter in the weekly agenda view.
  >
  > I can see several possible approaches to filtering out the recurring
  > tasks (if such filtering is even possible in the weekly agenda):
  > 1. somehow use the fact that the task has a repeater
  > 2. use the category - right now the tasks are all in a "Recurring"
  > category
  > 3. mark each with a "recurring" tag and use that
  > 4. put the recurring in a different org file (I currently use just
  > one org file)
  >
  > By the way - when scheduling, I use a view of my org file in one emacs
  > frame and the weekly agenda (in column view, so I can see the "efforts")
  > in a second frame.

Since you already have efforts defined for your tasks, you could
consider adding a block to your agenda for tasks that have "Effort>x"
where x is the effort threshold.

-- Manish