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12 votes
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Divider lines in org agenda?

Q: can I put divider lines in my org agenda view? My agenda buffer can get a little busy when I have a lot of things due. This busyness has the counterproductive effect of making me avoid looking at ...
3 votes
1 answer
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Display count of tasks in agenda, instead of tasks, based on tag

I've read through all the questions here, and searched extensively online. Since I've started using org-drill, I have a lot of scheduled tasks with the tag :drill:. Instead of having all these tasks ...
0 votes
1 answer
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get alist of org mode deadlines and times

Hi I would like to use the built-in notifications library in emacs with org mode (requires compiling with d-bus). I am trying to get it setup so that I can open my daily agenda view upon startup and ...
1 vote
1 answer
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Copying Column View (Org-Mode)

Is there a way to copy the table presented in "column view" as raw text?
3 votes
1 answer
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Color calendar day according to number of event in org-agenda

I would like to color the background of each day in calendar according to the number of events in my org-agenda. The idea is to have a quick and visual idea of what are the busiest days. The code from ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Yearly calendar view of agenda (with colored background)

I would like to have a yearly calendar view of my agenda. The code from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9547912/emacs-calendar-show-more-than-3-months shows how to display a calendar for the whole ...
19 votes
1 answer
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Org-mode calendar integration?

Calendar (invoked by M-x calendar) has diary integration feature. By this, one can view any special date on the calendar buffer (the day will be colored if there is diary entry for that day), and view ...
2 votes
0 answers
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Shift dates in bulk using org-mode

I have a large set of tagged tasks in an org file and I want to shift all their dates by one week. Dates could be scheduled, deadlines, or plain dates. What is the easiest way to do this? I attempted ...
0 votes
0 answers
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Extracting TODO items from .org file for display

I'd like to extract open TODO items from my agenda so I can display them somewhere prominent. I'm thinking maybe Conky and put it on the desktop, or put a TODO counter on my task bar, something like ...
3 votes
0 answers
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Customize text after task in custom org-agenda view

I've been writing my own custom org-agenda views lately, and I've had good luck playing around with org-agenda-prefix-format for customizing the format for my different tasks. I occasionally would ...
3 votes
1 answer
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Need help using org-map-entries

The first function works when executed on or in the body of an org headline. The second function doesn't return anything even though more than one headline in my set of agenda files has the org ...
7 votes
1 answer
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Query the org agenda from the commandline?

I'd like to display event counts in a conky window. Things like tasks scheduled for today, within the next 3 days, 15 days, count of pending todo items, etc. Since conky doesn't "talk" org-mode, the ...
4 votes
0 answers
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Can you configure the agenda weekly view to display horizontally?

When displaying the weekly agenda, can days be displayed side by side, the way they are displayed in Google Calendar's weekly view?
3 votes
1 answer
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How can I speed up individual commands?

When I call commands such as helm-apropos and custom Org agendas there is often a noticeable delay between the key sequence and the results presented. How can I speed up these commands to respond ...