I've been down the same road as you. You may want to try org-habits and set the variable: org-habit-show-habits-only-for-today t
I.e, 1. customize org-modules, enable 'org-habit' 2. Read org-habit docu ( A habit has a property :STYLE: habit ) Now these repeating tasks will only show once in the agenda. One thing to note, if you use notifications for scheduled tasks, they don't work with org-habbit's 'range' like +3d/5d. But if you don't care about notifications, you should be good. Please feel free to ask me questions about this. Leo Ufimtsev | Intern Software Engineer @ Eclipse Team ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcin Borkowski" <mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl> To: "Org-Mode mailing list" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:52:29 AM Subject: [O] How to exclude completed daily tasks from the agenda view Hi list, I have a number of TODO items that should be done *every day*. I do not use Org-mode for them, since in the two-week agenda they tend to clutter all days, not only today; if I complete such task, I want it not to be visible in the agenda /at all/. Is there a way to overcome this? One way would be to gather these tasks in a subtree, give it a special tag (or preferably, a category), and define a custom agenda view /excluding/ this particular tag/category. Is that possible? I tried this (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '(("X" agenda "-mytag"))) but it didn't work as expected. I also saw somewhere the `org-agenda-skip-function' variable; would this be a good way? If yes, how to use it? Do I get it correctly that it is a parameterless function, called with point at some entry? Also, I saw the `org-agenda-skip-regexp' variable; maybe this is the way to go? Or maybe I should put `org-agenda-skip-if' into `org-agenda-skip-function'? TIA, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University