"Sebastien Vauban" wrote: > Adam Spiers wrote: >> I just had an awesome conversation with Sacha about more effective >> daily/weekly reviewing with org-mode :-) One of the things we talked >> about was quantifying the number of tasks (TODO keywords) in any given >> state, as a means of becoming more aware of your progress over time. >> I have had some success in the past using the "measure what you want >> to manage maxim"[1], and wanted to start applying this to my horribly >> massive TODO.org file. >> >> #+BEGIN:dynamic block >> #+BEGIN: count :keywords (\"NEXT\" \"DONE\") :searches (\"@phone\" >> \"@home\") >> | NEXT | 522 | >> | DONE | 69 | >> | @phone | 77 | >> | @home | 182 | >> #+END: > > To me, the best thing would be to see that count up-to-date with every > custom agenda view. > > See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-09/msg01075.html > for a patch I proposed in that direction. > > However, I had some comments of Bernt saying that some edge cases are > not covered (when the block separator is empty). I still have to fix > that, and come back with a fully working solution.
An alternative could be `org-effectiveness', and having a hook to display the count (in the mode line) at each opening of an Org file... Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban
