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Would it be possible to list the total number of entries in a global todo agenda view? I would like to have a quick way to estimate progress daily.

So instead of:

Global list of TODO items of type: NEXT
  life:       NEXT Configure global todo lists   :emacs:

I would like to see something like: 

Global list of TODO items of type: NEXT (1 remaining)
  life:       NEXT Configure global todo lists   :emacs:

Is this possible? I know I could use statistics cookies in my life file, but I would prefer to have an overview of TODOs in my agenda view (I use 3 such lists after my Daily Agenda view).

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  • I use the line number to calc the total number of TODO list now, just the last line number minus 3 (or 2 if you have less TODO keywords)... – zhouji Dec 26 '17 at 17:31
  • @zhouji I used to do this also, but I have three such lists in one agenda view and this became too tedious or I'm just too lazy and I stopped. – kajman Dec 26 '17 at 20:21
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You can do this with org-agenda-finalize-hook:

(add-hook 'org-agenda-finalize-hook
            (lambda ()
              (save-excursion
                (goto-char (point-min))
                (when (re-search-forward
                       "Global list of TODO items of type: [[:upper:]]*" nil t)
                  (insert (propertize
                           (format " (%s remaining)"
                                   (- (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)) 2))
                           'face 'org-agenda-property-face))))))
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  • Thanks, I'll get back to you after I have time to test it. – kajman Mar 25 '19 at 9:19

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