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Re: [Orgmode] Showing scheduled blocked tasks [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]


From: Matthew Phillips
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Showing scheduled blocked tasks [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:09:00 +1030

On 16/03/2010, at 2:56 AM, Manish wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Matthew Phillips wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I am trying to get a TODO tags view in my daily agenda just shows
>> the first TODO of a “Project” (a la the “next action” in GTD).
>> This allows me to have a TODO “tags” block in my custom agenda
>> that doesn’t run to several pages: I just see the next action for
>> each project, and, as each action is marked DONE, the next one
>> pops up.
> 
> have you considered using org-depend? this is what i use for almost
> exactly what you described:
> 
> 1. a project has several TODOs
> 2. the first TODO (manually) is assigned a TRIGGER property with
>   "chain-siblings(NEXT)" as value
> 3. as this task is marked DONE, the one below is switched to NEXT
>   state and also gets the property
> 4. switching to NEXT causes org-todo-state-tags-triggers to tag the
>   task with NEXT tag
> 5. a custom agenda view adds a block of these NEXT tasks

Thanks for the suggestion Manish. I did look at org-depend, but it requires a 
little too much manual intervention for what I'm trying to do: i.e. reduce what 
I need to to do to have next tasks appear on my radar.

Cheers,

Matthew.



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