Re: [O] show only top level TODO in agenda and ignore sub level TODOS in agenda?

[Xebar Saram]

Thx stig. while thats an option i would prefer to keep the actual TODOS and not use lists for this

best

z

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Stig Brautaset <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On 22 Dec 2016, at 13:01, Xebar Saram <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> i recently had some projects where i would define the overall project as a TODO and then add some more sub headers with TODOS. the problem is that i dont want to see all these sub TODOS in the agenda. For example:
>
> * TODO start writing paper
> ** TODO  collect data
> ** TODO  add refernces
> ...
>
> i would like only the * TODO start writing paper to show in the Agenda view.
>
> obviously i dont want it to happen in any header-sub header in all files but rather for specific headers.
>
> is there a property drawer/other trick to achieve this?

You could perhaps use checklists instead of TODOS for the "inner" ones?

- [ ] some actionable thing

If you put [/] on the immediate parent heading (your todo) then the todo will be updated with [4/6] once you action four out of 6 items.

Stig