Switch ignore timestamp option dynamically in org-agenda

Question

I want to use some variations of ignoring timestamp options in org-agenda.

For example, I want to have custom agenda command enumerates

• TODOs Scheduled today
• TODOs tagged some tag only within future 2 weeks
• all TODOs regardless of timestamps

Are there some good way to realize this? (I imagine doing like let-ting org-agenda-ignore-* variables in each custom search options.)

Answer 1

This can all be done using tags/tags-todo property searches. You can search for schedule/deadline/timestamp information using the SCHEDULED, DEADLINE and TIMESTAMP properties. The TODO state is in the TODO property. Dates relative to "now" can be specified using org's <+nd> syntax to mean "n days from today". Your first two examples can be done using this method:

• TODOs Scheduled today --- +SCHEDULED="<+0d>"
• TODOs tagged some tag only within future 2 weeks --- +sometag+TIMESTAMP<=<+14d>

The third example is the built-in t agenda that lists all TODO items. You can recreated it by searching for +TOOD={.*} (.* being a regular expression that matches anything, so this matches any TODO state). By default this excludes and "done" TODO state.