On 2017-10-07, at 16:20, Matt Lundin <m...@imapmail.org> wrote: > Hi Marcin, > > Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> writes: > >> I'd like to get a list of all agenda TODOs, with titles and due dates. >> Is there something ready in Org/contrib/blogosphere to help me? > > This functionality is built into org-mode. The simplest way to get such > a list is to use the agenda (specifically M-x org-todo-list). To display > scheduling information you can customize the variable > org-agenda-prefix-format.
I know (and use) that. What I want is not /display/, but a /data structure/ containing that info. >> The problem I'm trying to solve is to make some kind of a metric of how >> I'm doing with my TODO list, like "how many overdue tasks do I have", or >> even better, such a sum weighted by the time after the deadline, or >> something similar. > > If you use the "DEADLINE" keyword (M-x org-deadline, bound to C-c C-d), > then the daily/weekly agenda (M-x org-agenda-list) will display any > overdue tasks. > > Finally, if you want simply to gather the todo data programmatically for > further processing you can use the function org-map-entries. Thanks, that seems to be a good pointer. I'll check it out. > Best, > Matt Best, -- Marcin Borkowski
