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I'd like to have org-mode do what OmniFocus does; when the bottom task in a sequential list is completed, the next task in the list becomes visible in an Agenda. Any thoughts on how I might try to tackle this problem?

I'd essentially like to write a tree with the leaves and only the leaves visible in some Agenda.

I'd be willing to try something like

* PENDING buy milk
** PENDING go to store
*** PENDING get in car
**** TODO find car keys
**** TODO put on pants

Where "get in car" automatically goes from PENDING to TODO when "find car keys" and "put on pants" are marked DONE in some Agenda. Ideally, though, I'd just create a special list of items all at the same level and mark the bottom one TODO.

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See org-depend.el. It does exactly what you want. Rather than repeating the documentation here you can see docs and examples at http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-depend.html

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  • Thanks, this works. You can even nest lists with a little practice. Notes for the novice: you have to remove the leading commas from the example file if you're pasting it out of the above link. Also, to get this to work I had to 1) add (add-to-list 'load-path "~/org/lisp") to the top of my .emacs file, 2) paste the raw org-depend.el file into ~/org/lisp/org-depend.el, and 3) add (require 'org-depend) to the bottom of my .emacs file, probably because my Emacs is installed from the Ubuntu Emacs Daily Snapshot PPA.
    – earlio
    Dec 18 '14 at 5:21

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