Re: [Orgmode] suggestion: options for chronological agenda

[Ilya Shlyakhter]

Ah, didn't know about that.   Things have changed since I last read
the full manual :)
Thanks for help!

ilya

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Carsten Dominik
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Ilya,
>
> have you tried
>
>  C-a a    to get the agenda,
>
> and then
>
>  v [
>
> to include inactive time stamps?
>
> HTH
>
> - Carsten
>
> On Sep 26, 2009, at 6:02 AM, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>  - it looks at the _first_ timestamp in an entry, rather than the
>> _last_ timestamp
>>  - 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.
>>
>> The suggestion is to enhance the timeline agenda with options to:
>>  - recognize "inactive" timestamps ([in square brackets])
>>  - use last, rather than first, timestamp in an entry
>>  - search the entire agenda, rather than just the current file
>>  - limit the agenda to entries within the last (say) week.
>>
>> The timeview agenda was of course originally designed for another use
>> case -- as a personal calendar/diary.
>> But I'm finding myself repeatedly using it this way: organize the
>> entries by hierarchical subject, and use the timeline
>> agenda to generate a chronological listing.
>>
>> It would also be _really_ great if the chronological listing could be
>> filtered to contain only entries matching a certain
>> tag/property query.   Then you could e.g. get a chronological list of
>> "important" entries, or entries on a certain
>> subject.
>>
>> ilya
>>
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