[Orgmode] Re: Agenda: Column View and Filtering

[Matt Lundin]

Memnon Anon <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I am still working on making orgmode a more usefull tool for me :), how
> do you guys handle this problem:
>
> I schedule and reschedule tasks pretty often. (Thats why I, too, think a
> history of scheduling would be a nice addition to have.). 
>
> Whenever a task comes up, I schedule it for some day in the future and
> handle it when it appears in my agenda. However, I try to keep a balance
> of several aspects in my life, mainly 
>
>    - "duties" like vacuum the flat
>    - "studium" everything related to work at university
>    - "fun" like reading a book, watching a dvd etc. and
>    - "sports": get in shape ;)
>
> Okay, as I frequently schedule and reschedule, I work from my agenda to
> keep these aspects of my life in a certain balance I predefined: 
> studium: at least 6 hours a day, fun (I really need to make some place
> for it) at least 1 hour a day etc.
>
> So, as I added Efforts and Tags to each item, it would be very
> convenient to keep scheduling, then filter the agenda for certain
> aspects to get a feeling, if I keep my personal balance up on this
> specific day. 
>
> However, using ColumnView on a filtered agenda, say "show me only my
> 'duties'", does not summarize the filtered agenda items, but everything,
> id est even everything that is hidden.
>
> I understand this is due to how filtering and columnview works,
> but
>
>         Has anyone an idea/workflow how I can work on this?
>
> I tried to lock myself up into fixed times, repeating items etc. but I
> am not that kind of person: A new day, I want to know whats up, but I
> also want to stay free enough to shape things according to my (day)
> taste. I rather do a daily (each morning) and a weekly review and 
> reschedule accordingly.
>
> I am a student, so I (still) have the possibility to do so; and I would
> like to keep it that way, but nevertheless want to have an eye on the
> general tendency, the balance of the several "aspects" I want to keep.
>
> I hope this is clear enough, 
>   Thanks for any suggestions!

Hi Memnon,

Yes, column view does not update its summaries based on filtering. But
perhaps you could create a custom agenda block that shows separate
agendas for each tag ("duties", "studium", etc.).

E.g.,

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
      '(("b" "Balance"
         ((agenda "" 
                  ((org-agenda-skip-function '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 
'notregexp ":duties:"))))
          (agenda "" 
                  ((org-agenda-skip-function '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 
'notregexp ":studium:")))))
         ;; add more agenda views here
         ((org-agenda-view-columns-initially t)))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Best,
Matt