[Orgmode] Re: Switching between many contexts

[Bernt Hansen]

Assign a FLUFF tag to your tasks then run the agenda normally and remove
the fluff with

/ - TAB FLUFF RET

or if you do that often set up org-tags-alist with F for FLUFF and just

/ - F

-Bernt


Samuel Wales <address@hidden> writes:

> I've been wondering about something similar.  Suppose you have a bunch
> of important tasks and a bunch of fluff tasks.  It might be useful to
> be able to have the "agenda" item in org-agenda-custom-commands accept
> a tags search so that you can use :fluff: on the fluff tasks and
> assign a key for everything except :fluff: tasks.  I was going to wait
> until after the Lisp syntax for searches was implemented and for me to
> get more experience before suggesting it.  In any case, it looks like
> the same kind of thing with categories?
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:03, Daniel Clemente <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi. I have this scenario: I track several projects in a single file, each 
>> in its own level-1 section, but each week I'm working only on one project.
>>  In my agenda (C-a a) I'm currently seeing scheduled tasks from all 
>> projects, and I would like to exclude all projects but one.
>>  I recently added a CATEGORY property to each section.
>>
>>
>>  My questions are:
>>
>> 1. How can I exclude a category from the agenda view?
>>   Probably with key \ TAB CATEGORY="something", but I can't make it work and 
>> I'm confused by the many types of searches that are referred to in the 
>> manual.
>>
>> 2. How can I create an agenda view that looks like the normal agenda, but 
>> ignores some categories? (at least on that file).
>>
>> 3. Do you implement this scenario in other ways? For instance, one can add 
>> the COMMENT keyword the unwanted projects, use different files, close all 
>> old tasks after each context switch, use other tags, …
>>
>>
>>  Thanks,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
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