Re: [O] Feature: Group and limit items in agenda

2013-02-25 Thread Bastien
Hi Samuel, Samuel Wales writes: > One other use here is to show a small random sample of your tasks > without affecting speed. > > In before sorting filter function, set a pseudorandom number (biased > according to a distribution of your choice) on a text property. You > can set some to appear

Re: [O] Feature: Group and limit items in agenda

2013-02-24 Thread Samuel Wales
One other use here is to show a small random sample of your tasks without affecting speed. In before sorting filter function, set a pseudorandom number (biased according to a distribution of your choice) on a text property. You can set some to appear always. In the mapcar function, use user-defi

Re: [O] Feature: Group and limit items in agenda

2013-02-23 Thread Bastien
Hi Muchenxuan, Muchenxuan Tong writes: > There's a 'org-agenda-before-sorting-filter-function' variable. > However, I'm not able to use it for grouping things, because it's > used as '(mapcar org-agenda-before-sorting-filter-function list)' > > Would it be useful to add another function here, no

Re: [O] Feature: Group and limit items in agenda

2013-02-16 Thread Muchenxuan Tong
Yes I understand your point. However, setting TODO for each category manually would be laborious in my situation, I have to adjust the configuration file each time I add/delete the project. For my implementation, I advice on function 'org-agenda-finalize-entries' to put lists into different groups

Re: [O] Feature: Group and limit items in agenda

2013-02-11 Thread Bastien
Hi Muchenxuan, Muchenxuan Tong writes: > My intention is to limit the number of tasks in each category. Did you check (info "(org)Block Agenda") ? That's the way I would suggest: define a block agenda listing the various categories, then use `org-agenda-max-todos' in each of them to limit th

Re: [O] Feature: Group and limit items in agenda

2013-02-10 Thread Muchenxuan Tong
Thanks for the new feature. I tried and it works well for what it intended to do. However, I still haven't found a way to do the kind of things I mentioned. My intention is to limit the number of tasks in each category. For the new proposed 'org-agenda-max-todos', I can only limit the number of TO

Re: [O] Feature: Group and limit items in agenda

2013-02-07 Thread Bastien
Hi Muchenxuan, Muchenxuan Tong writes: > * Motivation > - Sacha Chua proposed a solution for viewing top three tasks by > context > (http://sachachua.com/blog/2012/12/emacs-org-display-subset-tasks-context/) > - In the Next view in Things (http://culturedcode.com/), one is able > to setting to

Re: [O] Feature: Group and limit items in agenda

2013-01-23 Thread AW
> > For me this is enough. However, I wonder whether this could be useful > for others. The proposed feature is a general "group by and limit": > > - In agenda view, you are able to group todo or agendas with a certain > criterion (category, tags..) > - You are able to restrict the items shown in