[Orgmode] Re: tags-tree question

[Bernt Hansen]

Hi Pete,

That works for todo list searches only (not tags).  There is a new
variable org-agenda-tags-todo-honor-ignore-options which you can set
which I think does what you are looking for.  I have this set to t in my
setup.

HTH,
Bernt


Pete Phillips <address@hidden> writes:

> Afternoon all.
>
> Last Nov I asked on the list if it was possible to have TODO items with
> a scheduled/deadline date more than 30 (or some fixed number) of days in
> the future to NOT show up on my custom agenda. The reason being that I
> don't want to be distracted when I look at my custom Home list by a task
> for next January until closer to the time. I have added my original
> email to the bottom of this in case you have forgotten it!  :-)
>
> Bernt's reply was:
>
>>>>>> "Bernt" == Bernt Hansen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     Bernt> Hi Pete,
>     Bernt> For this do something like the following:
>     Bernt> Set a deadline date on
>
>     Bernt> *** NEXT Cut pampass grass :DIY: DEADLINE: <2009-01-12 Thu>
>
>     Bernt> and
>
>     Bernt> (setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date t)
>
>     Bernt> This keeps all tasks with a schedules or deadline date out of
>     Bernt> the list of tasks when searching for next tasks and by
>     Bernt> default deadlines show up on the agenda 30 days before they
>     Bernt> need to be done.
>
>     Bernt> I find I'm using DEADLINE: a lot more then SCHEDULED: in my
>     Bernt> tasks.
>
>     Bernt> In this case your custom agenda command to match NEXT tasks
>     Bernt> will not list the tasks with dates (ever) and those tasks
>     Bernt> will show up on the agenda 30 days before they need to be
>     Bernt> complete.  
>
> I couldn't get this to work at the time but have been trying to sort
> this issue out again over the last few days. 
>
> Having set:
>
>        (setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date t)
>
> I can see that scheduled items for next January (cutting my pampas
> grass) are kept out of the pre-configured 
>
>   ^C a t 
>
> command (list of all TODO entries) - so this does in fact work - my
> pampas grass entry doesn't show. However, my custom agenda command for
> Home does show it.
>
> (see my orig email below for details on the custom agenda).
>
> So it appears to me that there is a difference in how the
> org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date variable behaves in the pre-configured
> TODO list and my custom view.
>
> Is there something simple I'm missing or is this a bug ?
>
> Cheers
> Pete
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Pete Phillips <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  Pete> > On a related question, is it possible to set up an
>  Pete> > org-agenda-custom-command to pick out a set of tags, all of which 
> have
>  Pete> > NEXT as a todo-type, and which either have no scheduled date, OR 
> which
>  Pete> > have a scheduled or deadline date less than or equal to 1 month in 
> the
>  Pete> > future.
>  Pete> >
>  Pete> > For example, show lines with 
>  Pete> >
>  Pete> >     NEXT and (Home | LaptopH | DIY) 
>  Pete> >
>  Pete> > where either there is no scheduled (or perhaps, deadline) date OR 
>  Pete> >
>  Pete> >      Scheduled Date <= today + 1 month
>  Pete> >
>  Pete> > My thinking on this is that sometimes I have next actions (such as
>  Pete> > cutting my pampas grass every january), which would be set up like 
> this:
>  Pete> >
>  Pete> > *** NEXT Cut pampass grass :DIY:
>  Pete> > SCHEDULED: <2009-01-12 Thu>
>  Pete> >
>  Pete> > My current setup uses this:
>  Pete> >
>  Pete> >  ("h" "Home Stuff (Next)"
>  Pete> >   ((tags "Home//NEXT" nil)
>  Pete> >    (tags "DIY//NEXT" nil)
>  Pete> >    (tags "LaptopH//NEXT" nil)
>  Pete> >   nil)
>  Pete> >
>  Pete> > The problem at the moment is that it shows up all year in my Home 
> Stuff
>  Pete> > (Next) list (which searches for Home|LaptopH|DIY with NEXT 
> todotypes),
>  Pete> > but I only want it to start showing up about a month before the date 
> I
>  Pete> > have decided I need to do it. At the moment, NEXT items which I will
>  Pete> > need to do, but which I can't do anything about until nearer the 
> time,
>  Pete> > clutter up my action lists.
>  Pete> >
>  Pete> > Is there any way to do this ?
>
>  Bernt> Hi Pete,
>  Bernt> 
>  Bernt> For this do something like the following:
>  Bernt> 
>  Bernt> Set a deadline date on 
>  Bernt> 
>  Bernt> *** NEXT Cut pampass grass :DIY:
>  Bernt> DEADLINE: <2009-01-12 Thu>
>  Bernt> 
>  Bernt> and
>  Bernt> 
>  Bernt> (setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date t)
>  Bernt> 
>  Bernt> This keeps all tasks with a schedules or deadline date out of the list
>  Bernt> of tasks when searching for next tasks and by default deadlines show 
> up
>  Bernt> on the agenda 30 days before they need to be done.
>  Bernt> 
>  Bernt> I find I'm using DEADLINE: a lot more then SCHEDULED: in my tasks.
>  Bernt> 
>  Bernt> In this case your custom agenda command to match NEXT tasks will not
>  Bernt> list the tasks with dates (ever) and those tasks will show up on the
>  Bernt> agenda 30 days before they need to be complete.  You can control when
>  Bernt> they show up individually using dates such as
>  Bernt> 
>  Bernt> DEADLINE: <2009-01-12 Thu -60d>
>  Bernt> 
>  Bernt> This works great for me.
>  Bernt> 
>  Bernt> Regards,
>  Bernt> Bernt