Hi! I just found out by accident that a prefix argument to < (org-agenda-filter-by-category) excludes the category of the item at point from the agenda. Looks like that feature did not make it into the documentation.
Is the extension of the documentation below acceptable? --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Head: 2c8b039 maint Merge branch 'maint' of orgmode.org:org-mode into maint Upstream: 2c8b039 origin/maint Merge branch 'maint' of orgmode.org:org-mode into maint Tag: release_8.3.1 (113) Unstaged changes (1) modified doc/org.texi @@ -8616,9 +8616,10 @@ selected. @vindex org-agenda-category-filter-preset Filter the current agenda view with respect to the category of the item at -point. Pressing @code{<} another time will remove this filter. You can add -a filter preset through the option @code{org-agenda-category-filter-preset} -(see below.) +point. Pressing @code{<} another time will remove this filter. When called +with a prefix argument exclude the category of the item at point from the +agenda. You can add a filter preset through the option +@code{org-agenda-category-filter-preset} (see below.) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Ciao, Marco -- GPG: 0x49010A040A3AE6F2