On 14.10.2011, at 22:09, Neilen Marais wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently switched from using tracks (http://getontracks.org/) to > org mode for GTD task management. One neat tracks feature that I am > struggling to reproduce is the "show task from date". If you add a > task with no date set, they show up immediately in the context next > action lists, but if you have a "show from" date in the future, it > only shows the task from that date onwards. > > Scheduling timestamps (http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#sec-16-9) > seem like they should do exactly that, but they don't seem to work in > my custom org-agenda that I use to show only items with a NEXT todo > state and an assigned context. However, it shows all items > irrespective of the scheduling setting. > > (setq org-agenda-custom-commands > '( > ("c" "Context Next Tasks" > tags-todo (mapconcat 'car my-org-context-tag-alist "|") > ((org-agenda-skip-function '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if > 'nottodo '("NEXT"))) > (org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(tag-up)) > (org-agenda-overriding-header "Context Next Tasks") > )) > )) > > How can I make this custom agenda skip items that are scheduled in the > future, while also keeping unscheduled tasks? I have also tried adding > (org-agenda-entry-types '(:scheduled)) > but that did not seem to make any difference.
Hi Neilen, this was a pretty good attempt for someone who says he is new to org! Scheduling normally has the purpose to make an item show up in your daily agenda on a specified date. But you can use is also to hide items scheduled in the future from the task list. Here is how: (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '( ("c" "Context Next Tasks" tags-todo "TODO=\"NEXT\"+SCHEDULED=\"\"|TODO=\"NEXT\"+SCHEDULED<=\"<today>\"" ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(tag-up)) (org-agenda-overriding-header "Context Next Tasks") )))) You can use a regexp match TODO={^\\(NEXT\\|...\\|...\\)$} to check for several TODO keywords as once. Another, more compact possibility that is also more easily extended to your longer list of tasks in my-org-context-tags-alist is: (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '( ("c" "Context Next Tasks" tags-todo "SCHEDULED=\"\"|SCHEDULED<=\"<today>\"/NEXT" ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(tag-up)) (org-agenda-overriding-header "Context Next Tasks") )))) Let me know if I need to further explain why these works - but I guess you can figure it out? Cheers - Carsten