Re: Workflow for planning and scheduling tasks with org mode

[Christian Moe]

(re-sending, forgot to copy to the list)

Hi, Ashish,

You may get more specific advice if you exxplain exactly in what way
org-agenda seems to fail for you, i.e. what you expect to see and what
happens.

>From what you say, it sounds as if you have items in your file
agenda.org that you expect to show up in the Agenda view when you run
org-agenda, but they don't unless you do "C-c [" on the file. That
should not be the case.

What value have you set for org-agenda-files in your init file?

Note that if the value is set to a single file name instead of a list of
files, Org-mode will treat that single file as a source of file names.

So if you keep all your todo items in a single file called agenda.org,
setting it to a one-item list like this should work:

:  (setq 'org-agenda-files '("/home/username/agenda.org"))

But if you set it to a value like this,

:  (setq 'org-agenda-files "/home/username/agenda.org")

it might not behave as you expect. (Ditto for custom-set-variables if
that's where you initialize it.)


Yours,
Christian


Ashish Panigrahi <public@ashishpanigrahi.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am fairly new to org and was wondering what are the common workflows that 
> people follow for planning and scheduling with
> org-mode.
>
> Currently I have one file called agenda.org to which I write a top level 
> header for the week that I'm planning tasks for, followed by the
> tasks with the TODO keyword in front of the tasks. Still trying to figure out 
> org-agenda as it often seems to fail me (or perhaps I've not
> understood the exact working behind it) but I often find myself pressing "C-x 
> [" to bring agenda.org to the front of the agenda list,
> after which I can see my org agenda.
>
> Also, has anyone been able to make evil work with org-agenda? Thanks.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ashish