Re: [O] Is there a way to get all agenda TODOs programmatically?

[Matt Lundin]

Hi Marcin,

Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> 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.

> 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.

Best,
Matt