[Orgmode] Re: Filtering for effort in org-agenda

[Carsten Dominik]

On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> I think I changed that behaviour originally in commit dc43885
>
> I was looking for a way to select tasks with no effort so I could  
> define
> an effort before working on them.
>
> I'd like to retain the ability to find tasks with no effort easily.
> There's probably a better solution that the one I came up with.
>
> -Bernt

Are you doing this now using filtering for effort, or a property  
search for Effort?

- Carsten

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> commit dc438851021ba340bbff3462671e2b142ff6bdbf
> Author: Carsten Dominik <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Nov 11 06:56:32 2008 +0100
>
>    Treat no effort defined as 0 minutes.
>
>    Bernt Hanses writes:
>
>    This changes the default value for Effort during agenda filtering  
> so
>    that an undefined Effort value is treated as 0 instead of nil.   
> Tasks
>    with no effort defined now return zero effort when selecting  
> tasks for
>    the filter.
>
>    There was effectively no way to select 'tasks with no effort  
> defined'
>    using the agenda effort filter.  The '<' operator is interpreted as
>    '<=' and the default effort selection defined in
>    org-agenda-filter-by-tag starts with zero ("0 0:10 ...") so this
>    change just treats tasks with no effort defined the same as tasks  
> with
>    an effort of 0.
>
>    This allows fast selection of NEXT tasks with no effort defined.
>    Column view with follow-mode active in the agenda is great for  
> quickly
>    filling in the agenda estimated effort values for tasks.  Just  
> display
>    your Next tasks, then / 0 to select tasks with no effort and enter
>    column mode (C-c C-x C-c) and fill in your effort values with the
>    quick keys (0-9) for all of the tasks that have blanks in the  
> effort
>    column.
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