(re-sending, forgot to copy to the list) Hi, Ashish,
You may get more specific advice if you exxplain exactly in what way org-agenda seems to fail for you, i.e. what you expect to see and what happens. >From what you say, it sounds as if you have items in your file agenda.org that you expect to show up in the Agenda view when you run org-agenda, but they don't unless you do "C-c [" on the file. That should not be the case. What value have you set for org-agenda-files in your init file? Note that if the value is set to a single file name instead of a list of files, Org-mode will treat that single file as a source of file names. So if you keep all your todo items in a single file called agenda.org, setting it to a one-item list like this should work: : (setq 'org-agenda-files '("/home/username/agenda.org")) But if you set it to a value like this, : (setq 'org-agenda-files "/home/username/agenda.org") it might not behave as you expect. (Ditto for custom-set-variables if that's where you initialize it.) Yours, Christian Ashish Panigrahi <pub...@ashishpanigrahi.com> writes: > Hi, > > I am fairly new to org and was wondering what are the common workflows that > people follow for planning and scheduling with > org-mode. > > Currently I have one file called agenda.org to which I write a top level > header for the week that I'm planning tasks for, followed by the > tasks with the TODO keyword in front of the tasks. Still trying to figure out > org-agenda as it often seems to fail me (or perhaps I've not > understood the exact working behind it) but I often find myself pressing "C-x > [" to bring agenda.org to the front of the agenda list, > after which I can see my org agenda. > > Also, has anyone been able to make evil work with org-agenda? Thanks. > > Kind regards, > Ashish