Hi Pete, Pete Ley <peteley11...@gmail.com> writes:
> I know there is a way to display parent headlines using the agenda > prefix. > > Is there a simple way to do this conditionally for certain subtrees? Nope. > Here's my use case. I have an org file machines.org for keeping track of > what I do to various machines I work on/administer (though I use that > term hesitantly and extremely lightly :)). I keep TODO items for each > machine for things like backups and updates. Sometimes I'll have an item > that has subtasks and I don't want to make the parent heading a TODO > item because it will clutter my agenda view. I just want the subtasks to > show, but I'd like to have some reference to the overarching task. You can hit ^ in the agenda: ^ runs the command org-agenda-filter-by-top-headline Hope that helps, -- Bastien