Questions tagged [org-agenda]
is the Org mode facility that generates agenda views, handles files for agendas, dispatches keyboard shortcuts for agenda operations, sorts agendas, and performs agenda-related functions in conjunction with other org-mode features. Use additional org-mode tags for questions about interoperation of agenda with other Org features.
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org-mode custom agenda view with multiple lines per item?
Is it possible to create an agenda view that displays a few lines for each item? I want to get items tagged :project:, by running a search like you do with org-tags-view (the tag and maybe some other ...
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How can I have point on today when running org-agenda?
This is a general problem I'm struggling with, but I have to begin somewhere.
This problem didn't happen before.
When I run org-agenda, point ends up on the bottom of the entries, instead of todays' ...
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How to make org-agenda time-grid :LOGBOOK: entries appear in the same format as entries logged with CLOSED:
I recently made the following modification to my init.el to show :LOGBOOK: entries in the org-agenda time-grid:
(use-package org
(setq org-agenda-log-mode-items '(closed clock state)))
The only ...
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Agenda view with TODO items sorted by deadline and then by scheduled
I would like to have my TODO items sorted first by deadline and then by scheduled date, while for all the other ones, I honestly don't care. So, let's assume I have the following org file content and ...
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Display now includes inactive timestamps as well
I am using emacs 29.1
When going to org-agenda and then want to change to the next week ], instead of going to the next week, I get the message:
Display now includes inactive timestamps as well.
Why ...
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Schedule repeating org-agenda TODO entry with diary sexp and time
I have repeating appointments for the next half year and want them to show up in my agenda. I managed to make them show on the correct dates like this:
* TODO Example Event
SCHEDULED: <%%(and(diary-...
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Build org agenda based on org-roam tags
I need to populate my org-agenda with items collected from org-roam nodes based on their TAGS (i.e. nodes tagged as "project" or "payments"), but I definitely lack the necessary ...
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What is the point of Org-agenda?
I'm very new to GNU Emacs. The first thing I need is to schedule deadlines for events. As far as I understand, Org is at the core an outliner, so why come up with an Org agenda rather than implement, ...
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??? showing in Agenda instead of file name
I have several .org file and typically have them all open in Emacs at the same time. Recently, my agenda started showing one of those file names as "???" instead of the actual filename--...
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How to export all overdue TODOs as if they are scheduled for today
What I'm trying to do is to export an .ics file daily that can be imported to Google Calendar so that I can view all unfinished TODOs on my phone. In Emacs, I have org-agenda show the unfinished TODOs ...
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How to add a timestamp directly from the 'todo'-type agenda buffer
My typical agenda view is a global todo agenda. I would like to add timestamps directly to a header from this view. It is possible with deadline and schedule but not for timestamps.
I have tried the ...
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color org-agenda entries by level
My org agenda (I use it as a todo-list without dates with the alltodo type, generating a list of all todo entries for each file) has many entries with many subheadings (which can again have multiple ...
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How can I sort by numerical properties in org-agenda?
I have defined a property "SWAY", which can be numbers between 0 and 1000
* TODO Task 20 :hukarz:
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED: [2020-05-01 Fri]...
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How can I treat org-agenda-custom-commands as an associative array?
Every time I run this, it gets added to the list, but I want to replace the entry "ab" with any new definition I come up with.
(setq hukarz
`("ab"
"foo bar"
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Bulk rescheduling agenda items without altering time of day or DEADLINE?
I currently bulk reschedule agenda items using:
(setq org-agenda-bulk-custom-functions
'((?D (lambda () (call-interactively 'org-agenda-date-later)))))
This command can be used without a prefix ...
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When using prefix with org-agenda-custom-commands, how can I rename the help text?
Right now the name "Prefix" is standing next to all my prefix keys, in org-agenda.
Is there any way to rename this "help text"?
EDIT: if you have entries with e.g. two-letter keys ...
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Repeat an hourly task in org-agenda grid
Why an hourly scheduled (repeating) task would appear only once in org-agenda grid? I assumed that this entry should appear again (at 17:09, 18:09, 19:09...).
This org-agenda is generated with:
(...
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Show repeated tasks in org-agenda grid?
Is there any way to get repeated tasks to appear in org-agenda grid? Right now they are always shown at the bottom.
In this example the tasks was scheduled to repeat every day at 12:00.
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Timestamp ranges not showing in Org Agenda: org-duration-to-minutes defined as void
Version: GNU Emacs 28.2
I'm having trouble displaying timestamp ranges on the Org Agenda. For example, if I have
* Event
<2023-07-29 Sat 08:00>
The Week-agenda correctly displays the event as
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org-notifications doesn't work
There has been many reports of org-notifications failing to work. Has anyone managed to set it up in the latest emacs?
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How can I hide todos which are scheduled in the past from org-agenda?
In my org-agenda view I have some todos which are way past their scheduled time, but I have not had the chance to get to them.
Is there any way to hide such todos, which have past their sceduled time, ...
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Export any entry as "Busy"
I would like to export my org-agenda to ical, showing any entry as "BUSY" in the export. Since I do not want to add the SUMMARY property to each entry, I'm looking for a way to do it ...
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Org mode: Scheduling irregular, yet rigid procedures
The Problem
What's the best way to schedule complicated time-based procedures that are repeated on irregular dates? E.g., say I signed up to do night watch on a set of arbitrary dates. The night watch ...
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In org-agenda, what is an easy way to search for headlines only?
In C-c a s, I can search the headlines using this regex:
{^\*+.*mykeyword}
This is a bit tedious to write every time, so is there any other, easier way? Even a wrapper for a partial search to just ...
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How to make agenda bulk tag actions respect exclusive tag groups?
For example, suppose I have the following tags in an exclusive group:
(setq org-tag-alist '((:startgroup)
("work" . ?w)
("home" . ?h)
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How to hide later siblings of TODO items in Agenda TODO list view
In my global TODO list (M-x org-agenda t), items are grayed out when a parent is marked as ordered and they have a previous sibling that is not DONE. For example:
* TODO Bake Cookies
:PROPERTIES:
:...
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how to set a text length for org agenda items?
Because the items in my agenda come directly from the header lines of org items, they can get long or uneven. I see this especially when I am bringing the items in from an email subject line. How can ...
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Is it possible to create an org-link to a custom agenda view?
I'd like to add links to custom agenda commands within org files and other agenda views.
I think the answer would likely use org-add-link-type.
I also know that you can call a custom agenda view with ...
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How to bind org-agenda-undo to C-z when cua-mode is enabled?
By default, C-_ runs the command undo (found in global-map). It also runs org-agenda-undo when in Agenda view.
As I use cua-mode, I undo changes with C-z. My issue is that it doesn't work in Agenda ...
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Create an org-agenda-custom-commands using org-agenda-filter
Org-mode newbie here.
I use the org-agenda-filter pretty heavily as part of my daily agenda workflow. I have a tag for "Work" related TODO items and repeat this operation several times a day:...
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Error when attempting to insert "standard skipping condition" with custom agenda
I am trying configure a custom agenda view with multiple blocks.
For one of the blocks, I want to skip items that have are scheduled or have a deadline in order to find "unscheduled" items (...
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How to have a repeating event scheduled in Org Mode during a date and time?
I want to schedule some recurring events in Org Mode at a certain time.
I want to have my work show up every week day from 13:00 - 17:00. I am trying to replicate the result from the Worg FAQ section ...
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add-to-list, replace
Is there any way to overwrite the "y" entry?
Every time when I evaluate this, it gets added as a new item on the list.
It makes it hard find an expression that works, when I can't replace ...
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What function is behind org-agenda matching?
I'd like to identify entries nested under entry foo that don't match under="foo". If I do M-x org-agenda RET m under<>"foo", I get the matches across all files specified in ...
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Edit org-agenda Files
Is there a way to edit the files which are included in org-agenda?
I have a pretty long list and want to just tidy up a bit.
I know I have the variable stored in init.el, but it's just one long line ...
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org-agenda-custom-commands, add-to-list
I'm trying to add-to-list org-agenda, but I failboat
(setq c-view
`(
("c" "High Priority and Low Rewards"
(
(tags "PRIORITY=\"A\""
(...
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Emacs org-journal todo items don't show up in org-agenda
I am wondering how you can make todo items from the journal show up in the agenda view.
Currently, my org set up is as follows
(setq org-directory "~/org/")
(setq org-agenda-files (directory-...
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Define org-agenda-files relative to org-directory?
I'm trying to set up my config so that the org-agenda-files are defined in relation to the org-directory.
Right now, I use all of the files in my org-directory as agenda files. In my config is:
(setq ...
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Custom org agenda, which displays a list of all tasks with todo-state "NEXT" and a tag from the org-tag-alist
I have defined several tags in my org-tag-alist. I want to have a list of all entries of which the TODO-State is "NEXT", which match a tag of this list. Ideally I would get a query where I ...
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mode-line, Status :: Added to Agenda
I'd like some kind of visual feedback in the mode-line, saying whether the current buffer is a file that is added to the org-agenda. Is there some way to do that?;)
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How to set `org-agenda-files` depending current date in order to lessen number of files to load?
I use org-roam-dailies for my TODO lists for given day. And currently, I set my org-agenda-files to org-roam-dailies's directory as below:
(setq org-agenda-files '("~/roamnotes/daily/"))
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org-agenda-file-to-front, when in Literate Configuration
I use a literate configuration, so my init.el file gets overwritten every time I tangle; how does this play together with org-agenda-file-to-front?;)
Maybe add a separate file to hold the included org ...
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org-agenda-open-link does not open links in the org-agenda view buffer
Sometimes I use the diary instead of org-mode to add meetings to the org-agenda, and occasionally these include links to emails or websites in the standard org format: [[https://duckduckgo.com][link ...
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How do you limit the number of results under a particular heading in a block custom agenda view?
How do you limit the number of results under a particular heading in a block custom agenda view?
I use a custom agenda with several blocks. For example:
(defun tagstatus (tagName)
"helper to ...
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Variable Org-Agenda View based on User input [duplicate]
I try to set up a function that:
Stores initial agenda view once (for resetting purpose)
Reads user input for project name
Creates several strings used for custom agenda parts
Adds combined custom ...
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agenda* causes “Wrong type argument” in Custom Block Agenda
I'm rebuilding my custom agenda, and I've discovered: agenda* works much better than agenda for me.
But when I try to built it into a block agenda, it stops work.
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
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Org-agenda time grid face, a bug?
I have a problem with org-agenda time grid. Whatever the theme I use, the first number in the time grid has not the correct face, see image. This is the case even with basic configuration. Any idea?
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S-<right> (org-agenda-do-date-later) is mapped to windmove-right [duplicate]
I moved to a new machine with my identical emacs configuration and all of a sudden S-<right> (which used to work as org-agenda-do-date-later) is responding bound to the command windmove-right (...
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Show sum of logged clock for a day in Org-Agenda day title
I am new to org agenda. I used to use Clockify to track my times. I could not find the feature to show sum of work log times in a day or week. Can anybody help me to achieve this?
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Org mode agenda custom command that can match on one of multiple property values
The "Advanced Search" Org mode tutorial on Worg provides the following example to find all entries with either "Walter" or "Evensong" in the author field:
BIB_TITLE={...
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