I am wondering how you can make todo items from the journal show up in the agenda view.
Currently, my org set up is as follows
(setq org-directory "~/org/")
(setq org-agenda-files (directory-files-recursively "~/org/" "\\.org$"))
(setq org-log-done 'time)
(setq org-journal-dir "~/org/11 Journal/")
(setq org-journal-file-format "%Y-%m-%d.org")
However, appending TODO items to my journal, it does not seem to show up later on in my todo list. Any clue how to make them show up?
Try using a different way to set org-agenda-files. The form you show above calculates the list at initialization, so any newly created journal files are not part of the list: you would have to add them manually.
In general, Org mode calls the function org-agenda-files when it needs to calculate the list of agenda files. In the case above, if you evaluate (org-agenda-files) i.e. call the function, you will get the list that was calculated at initialization. But if you look at the doc string of the variable org-agenda-files with C-h v org-agenda-files, you will see that:
...
If an entry is a directory, all files in that directory that are matched
by ‘org-agenda-file-regexp’ will be part of the file list.
...
So you can set it in your init file like this:
;; either ...
(setq org-directory "~/org/")
(setq org-agenda-files (list org-directory))
;; ... or more directly without the variable
(setq org-agenda-file '("~/org/"))
In conjunction with the default value of org-agenda-file-regexp which matches files that have an .org suffix, this will ensure that the list of files that org-agenda uses will include all files under the indicated directory with a .org suffix, including any newly created ones (something which your current form does not do).
You might end up with a very slow agenda if you have all (or lots of) your Org mode files under that directory, particularly after a couple of years of journaling. But that's a problem for another question.
