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SCHEDULED or DEADLINE TODO items with active timestamps correctly appear in my Agenda View (day/week/fortnight) under Org 9.0.4.

After making a timestamp inactive, such entries do not appear in the Agenda, as expected.

Pressing [ in Agenda View should display inactive timestamps. However, pressing this does not change the View. A message is displayed indicating that inactive timestamps are now included, but none are included. I have tested this in day, week and fortnight views, both pressing [ before and after changing the view. I tested with a DEADLINE item for today.

How can I display inactive timestamps in the Agenda?

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  • Say did you ever receive a response on this question? I was looking at the same issue as well.
    – krishnab
    Jan 3, 2018 at 16:05
  • Still waiting for an answer.
    – SabreWolfy
    Jan 3, 2018 at 17:28
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    Say, I found that there is a variable org-agenda-include-inactive-timestamp that might fit the bill. I guess you include it in a custom agenda command. You can look at the docstring in emacs with C-h v org-agenda-include-inactive-timestamp.
    – krishnab
    Jan 4, 2018 at 6:32
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    The only difference between an active timestamp and an inactive one is that the inactive timestamp is purposefully excluded from the Agenda view. This is useful for time-stamping journal entries, etc. without cluttering your agenda with non-actionable items. If you want this to appear in your Agenda, just use the active timestamp instead.
    – Adam
    Feb 11, 2018 at 12:06
  • @krishnab: The correct spelling is org-agenda-include-inactive-timestamps, with an "s" at the end.
    – Slaven Rezic
    Aug 22, 2019 at 15:27

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Using the hint by krishnab a possible function would be:

(defun org-agenda-inactive ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((org-agenda-include-inactive-timestamps t))
    (org-agenda)))

And using M-x org-agenda-inactive for the new function.

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    Thanks. I did it one step further. I use C-c a to call the normal org-agenda. And I use C-c b to call the org-agenda that show inactive timestamps, by adding (global-set-key (kbd "C-c a") 'org-agenda) and (global-set-key (kbd "C-c b") 'org-agenda-inactive) to the .emacs.
    – Xianwen Chen
    Aug 1, 2020 at 22:20
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Just to build on top of the excellent solution from Slaven, I did it one step further.

I use C-c a to call the normal org-agenda. And I use C-c b to call the org-agenda that show inactive timestamps.

(defun org-agenda-inactive ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((org-agenda-include-inactive-timestamps t))
    (org-agenda))
  )
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c a") 'org-agenda)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b") 'org-agenda-inactive)
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