emacs - org agenda notes

Org Agenda

https://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Commands.html

For additional help, look at the file org-agenda.el If you don’t know where it is, you can navigate to it using describe-function e.g. describe-function org-agenda-list

Use C-' to cycle through the agenda files (org-cycle-agenda-files)

Org Agenda Scheduling tasks and setting deadlines to tasks

https://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Commands.html

https://orgmode.org/manual/Deadlines-and-Scheduling.html

C-c C-s to schedule

When you want to schedule an item with Ctrl-c Ctrl-s, if you want to assign a time in addition to the date, enter the date manually and enter the time after the date. e.g. 2023-02-25 8PM and the time will also be inserted in the schedule in the org file.

C-c C-d to set a deadline

If you really need to do the tasks, but there’s no point in seeing it in today’s task list because you can’t do it today anyway, use C-c C-s (org-agenda-schedule) to reschedule the task. If you’re only moving it a couple of days ahead, use S-right (org-agenda-later) to move it forward, and S-left (org-agenda-earlier) if you overshoot.

Org Agenda Views

Agenda Views - First, you need to add your Org file to your Org agenda by using the command C-c [. Then, type Meta-x org-agenda to be presented with options for different views.

Filtering/limiting agenda items https://orgmode.org/manual/Filtering_002flimiting-agenda-items.html

Different options for looking at org-agenda

1. org-timeblock (I am using this right now. I set it up to load at emacs start-up and it works great.)
   1. Pros:
      1. gives a nice timeblock view
   2. Cons:
      1. Not showing the procrastinated items in the list.
      2. Not showing daily items in the default view. If we want to see them, we have to use either org-timeblock-list-mode or org-timeblock-toggle-timeblock-list) (to see the GUI and the list side-by-side).
      3. The defaults are not great
2. default view
   1. Pros:
      1. We can perform actions like marking tasks done, scheduling them to a different time/day right from this view without having to navigate anywhere else.
      2. verbose
   2. Cons:
      1. No GUI view
3. calfw:open-org-calendar
   1. Pros:
      1. gives a calendar view of the agenda
   2. Cons:
      1. No hourly timeblock view
4. org-timeblock-list-mode
   1. Pros:
      1. shows a nice view of the org-agenda.
   2. Cons:
      1. Same cons as that of org-timeblock

How to know what we did on a specific day?

1. M-x org-agenda view.
2. M-x org-agenda-go-to-date and pick a date.
3. Press [ for that day.
4. It will show all activities with inactive timestamps.

Show the Org-mode agenda on Emacs start-up

You can use after-init-hook to run a piece of code after initialization has finished. To run (org-agenda-list) after init, use:

(add-hook 'after-init-hook 'org-agenda-list)