Re: Show weekday in daily agenda view

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

dboyd@attentigroup.com (J. David Boyd) writes:

> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> dboyd@attentigroup.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
>>
>>> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> johanna.may@th-koeln.de writes:
>>>>
>>>>> maybe I did not search the right way in google alias startpage. But I
>>>>> could not figure out how to write next to the date e.g. 2000-04-01 the
>>>>> weekday, i.e. the specific day of the week. It would come very handy to
>>>>> have the date displayed as 2019-05-14 Tu and 2019-05-15 We and so on. Or
>>>>> even have it spelled out as 2019-05-14 Tuesday.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How do you generate that view?
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't your agenda view already show the day of the week?  With the
>>>> recommended keybinding, I get a daily agenda with C-c a a d.
>>>>
>>>> Mine starts like this:
>>>>
>>>> ,----
>>>> | Day-agenda (W20):
>>>> | Tuesday    14 May 2019
>>>> |                8:00...... ----------------
>>>> |   appts:      10:00-11:30 Tools Meeting
>>>> |               10:00...... ----------------
>>>> |               12:00...... ----------------
>>>> |               14:00...... ----------------
>>>> |               16:00...... ----------------
>>>> |               18:00...... ----------------
>>>> |               20:00...... ----------------
>>>> |   work:       Sched.Xx:  TODO Review PR
>>>> |   work:       Sched.2x:  TODO Add issue
>>>> |   Weather:    OpenWeatherMap: light rain, 3-8°C, 1010hpa, 90%, 3m/s
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> so it definitely shows the weekday, but perhaps you are doing something
>>>> different?
>>>
>>>
>>> How do you generate *that* view?  How do you have it creating sub-groups?  All
>>> I get is a straight-forward list of days and times, with all items in chrono
>>> order....
>>>
>>
>> Not sure what you mean by "sub-groups". And I'm pretty sure I don't do
>> anything special to get this. The grid is the standard grid - I
>> believe that comes "free" with the default settings of
>> org-agenda-time-grid and org-agenda-use-time-grid.
>>
>> The appts:, work: and Weather: thingies are "categories" - the first
>> two come from the name of the agenda file where the item originated:
>> I have a work.org file for work items and an appts.org file which contains just
>> reminders. It actually contains a bit more: there are top-level headlines
>> for Anniversaries, Weather and Appointments like this:
>>
>> ,----
>> | * Anniversaries
>> |        :PROPERTIES:
>> |        :CATEGORY: Anniv
>> |        :ID:       409062f6-6cb1-467f-b192-2dfcb7b384ca
>> |        :END:
>> | %%(org-bbdb-anniversaries)
>> | 
>> | * Weather
>> |   :PROPERTIES:
>> |   :CATEGORY: Weather
>> |   :END:
>> | %%(org-weather)
>> | 
>> | * Appointments
>> | ** APPT Doctor appt <some date and time>
>> | ....
>> `----
>>
>> Items in the Appoinments section don't have a defined Category
>> so they are labeled with the fill name ("appts"). Anniversaries
>> and Weather items have a CATEGORY property so they are labeled
>> by  the explicit category.
>>
>> I don't remember whether I do anything special to sort the items
>> (e.g. why the Weather item is always last). If you are interested
>> in that, I can dig a little more into my configuration.
>>
>> Does that answer your question?
>
>
> That helps immensely, evidently I have some reading to do, so I understand
> more of how to change the agenda view around.
>
> And yes please, could/would you check your config and see if anything special
> is done?
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Dave in Hudson, FL

Make sure you have files contributing to org-agenda-files otherwise your
agenda view will be empty.

Regards,
Bernt