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Re: [Orgmode] Re: PATCH: include in-progress/started todos into daily ag

From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Re: PATCH: include in-progress/started todos into daily agenda
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:18:12 +0200 
Hi Max,

I can follow your arguments about space used up by the extra headlines,
and I can also see why you'd want the entries mixed.

What I don't understand is this:

If you have an item scheduled, and if you don't mark it DONE, it will be
in the list of scheduled items on every future date until you finally mark 
it done.  It seems to me that this does *automatically* already exactly
what you are aiming for.

What am I missing?

- Carsten

On Sep 27, 2007, at 16:33, Max Mikhanosha wrote:


Responding to my own email, because I accidentally deleted Carsten
response.

Carsten suggested that I check the block agenda functionality to see
if it already does the same thing. The block agenda have the following
little quirks which made me implement my own solution instead:

Example of block agenda:

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Day-agenda:
Thursday  27 September 2007
  proj:       Scheduled:  TODO [#C] Some scheduled task

====================
Global list of TODO items of type: INPROGRESS
  proj:       INPROGRESS [#A] Some task that is already in progress
---------------------------------------------------------------------


1. Items from the block agenda are a separate block, and not sorted
   together with the items scheduled for the same day. So even if my
   in-progress item is A its shown below the scheduled for this day
   item that is C

2. There are 3 lines of vertical space taken by the empty line at the
   end of the daily agenda, the === separator and the "Global list"
   heading. I usually use emacs from tty, so my screen is 100x30 so 3
   lines is 1/3 of the whole agenda buffer.

Below is how it looks like when in-progress items are treated as if
they were scheduled for today, which is what my patch does.

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Day-agenda:
Thursday  27 September 2007
  proj:       INPROGRESS [#A] Some task that is already in progress
  proj:       Scheduled:  TODO [#C] Some scheduled task
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Which is much clearer to me.  The in-progress tasks are in the same
list as the tasks scheduled for today, and are sorted together.

Its not problem if my patch is rejected, I have a less invasive
solution for my own needs that does the same thing with a single
defadvice. I have only sent a patch because IMHO ppl were already
discussing the same method of mixing the daily agenda with in-progress
items, but with a "manual" method of managing the in-progress items,
ie re-scheduling them every day until done with them.

At Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:50:15 -0400, Max Mikhanosha wrote:


I had always used the day/weekly/mothly agenda vs the searchable
agenda separately and sometimes missed things because they were in one
list but not another.  For example when looking into a tags based
agenda for :computer, I may have missed some other item that was
scheduled for today but not tagged with computer, and via versa.

The method described in the post titled "Not using GTD" post, where
only the daily agenda is the primary agenda used solves this problem,
but I don't like to schedule/reschedule my items all the time.

So inspired by the "Not using GTD" post, proposed patch allows
specifying a TODO type that would always be included into daily
agenda on a current day, as if it was scheduled.

So one can just mark items that need to be worked on doing the day as
lets say "INPROGRESS" and they would stay in the daily agenda
alongside/intermixed with the items scheduled for today until you
close them. If you like to postpone the item, you put it as TODO
again, and it would disappear.

Proposed patch is as plain text below, feel free to rewrite/change
as the method I've used may not have been optimal.

Regards,
  Max
diff -rp -x '*.orig' -x '*.elc' -x '*~' org-5.10a.orig/org.el org-5.10a/org.el 
*** org-5.10a.orig/org.el       Wed Sep 26 13:33:20 2007
--- org-5.10a/org.el    Wed Sep 26 16:33:52 2007
*************** When nil, only the days which actually h
*** 2323,2328 ****
--- 2323,2342 ----
    :group 'org-agenda-daily/weekly
    :type 'boolean)

+ (defcustom org-agenda-show-inprogress-todos nil
+   "Non-nil means, include the TODO's of the type specified by
+ `org-inprogress-todos' into the daily agenda."
+   :group 'org-agenda-daily/weekly
+   :type 'boolean)
+
+ (defcustom org-inprogress-todos "INPROGRESS"
+   "Specifies TODO type that would be automatically included into
+ the daily agenda when `org-agenda-show-inprogress-todos' is set.
+ You can specify more then one value separating them with |, for
+ example INPROGRESS|STARTED"
+   :group 'org-agenda-daily/weekly
+   :type 'string)
+
  (defcustom org-agenda-format-date 'org-agenda-format-date-aligned
    "Format string for displaying dates in the agenda.
  Used by the daily/weekly agenda and by the timeline.  This should be
*************** NDAYS defaults to `org-agenda-ndays'."
*** 18056,18062 ****
                    (- sd (+ (if (< d 0) 7 0) d)))))
         (day-numbers (list start))
         (inhibit-redisplay (not debug-on-error))
!        s e rtn rtnall file date d start-pos end-pos todayp nd)
      (setq org-agenda-redo-command
(list 'org-agenda-list (list 'quote include-all) start-day ndays)) 
      ;; Make the list of days
--- 18070,18077 ----
                    (- sd (+ (if (< d 0) 7 0) d)))))
         (day-numbers (list start))
         (inhibit-redisplay (not debug-on-error))
!        s e rtn rtnall file date d start-pos end-pos todayp nd
!          args)
      (setq org-agenda-redo-command
(list 'org-agenda-list (list 'quote include-all) start-day ndays)) 
      ;; Make the list of days
*************** NDAYS defaults to `org-agenda-ndays'."
*** 18102,18117 ****
            (setq end-pos (point))))
        (setq files thefiles
            rtnall nil)
        (while (setq file (pop files))
        (catch 'nextfile
          (org-check-agenda-file file)
!         (if org-agenda-show-log
!             (setq rtn (org-agenda-get-day-entries
!                        file date
!                        :deadline :scheduled :timestamp :sexp :closed))
!           (setq rtn (org-agenda-get-day-entries
!                      file date
!                      :deadline :scheduled :sexp :timestamp)))
          (setq rtnall (append rtnall rtn))))
        (if org-agenda-include-diary
          (progn
--- 18117,18132 ----
            (setq end-pos (point))))
        (setq files thefiles
            rtnall nil)
+       (setq args '(:deadline :scheduled :timestamp :sexp))
+       (when org-agenda-show-log
+         (push :closed args))
+       (when org-agenda-show-inprogress-todos
+         (push :inprogress args))
        (while (setq file (pop files))
        (catch 'nextfile
          (org-check-agenda-file file)
!           (setq rtn (apply 'org-agenda-get-day-entries
!                            file date args))
          (setq rtnall (append rtnall rtn))))
        (if org-agenda-include-diary
          (progn
*************** the documentation of `org-diary'."
*** 18606,18611 ****
--- 18621,18632 ----
;; The way we repeatedly append to `results' makes it O(n^2) :-( 
              (while (setq arg (pop args))
                (cond
+                ((and (eq arg :inprogress)
+                      (equal date (calendar-current-date)))
+                 (let ((org-select-this-todo-keyword
+                          org-inprogress-todos))
+                     (setq rtn (org-agenda-get-todos))
+                     (setq results (append results rtn))))
                 ((and (eq arg :todo)
                       (equal date (calendar-current-date)))
                  (setq rtn (org-agenda-get-todos))



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