[Orgmode] Re: suggestion: options for chronological agenda

[Matt Lundin]

Ilya Shlyakhter <address@hidden> writes:

> I often need to find recently modified entries. I try to timestamp
> entries I work on with the active timestamps (in angular brackets),
> and use the C-x a L command. This mostly works, but is imperfect:

>     - when i use time logging, it inserts "inactive" timestamps that
> are not found this way. so, i can't use this to find "recently worked
> on" entries.

I believe that's because org-mode, in general, treats active timestamps
as scheduling data -- i.e., things you need to do. I.e., it is optimized
for using inactive timestamps to indicate "recently worked on" items.

>     - it looks at the _first_ timestamp in an entry, rather than the
> _last_ timestamp

Could you give an example? When I try C-c a L, it creates separate
instances for each timestamp in an entry.

E.g., the following file...

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* A test
<2009-09-25 Fri>
<2009-09-26 Sat>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

becomes...

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Friday     25 September 2009
  A test
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Saturday   26 September 2009
  A test
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

>     - it is limited to one file .   would be much better if it could
> be made to work across the entire agenda.
>     - it would be fine to have the option to limit it to entries
> within the last, say, week, if that would speed it up.

Depending on whether or not Carsten decides to change the behavior of
the timeline view ;) , you could always use a custom agenda command to
accomplish the same thing.

>
> The suggestion is to enhance the timeline agenda with options to:
>    - recognize "inactive" timestamps ([in square brackets])

See the variable org-agenda-inactive-timestamps.

> It would also be _really_ great if the chronological listing could be
> filtered to contain only entries matching a certain tag/property
> query.

Try filtering the timeline with "/".

Best,
Matt