Re: Is is possible to summarize contents of a task in the agenda headings?

[joakim@verona.se]

David Masterson <dsmasterson@outlook.com> writes:

> <joakim@verona.se> writes:
>
>> Say I have a bunch of tasks like this:
>>
>> * TODO task with many subtasks
>> ** TODO subtask 1
>> ** TODO subtask 2
>> * TODO another task with many subtasks
>> ** TODO another subtask 1
>> ** TODO another subtask 2
>>
>> And so on.
>>
>> Now, in the agenda, I would like some kind of summarizing, perhaps like:
>>
>> * TODO task with many subtasks, subtask 1, subtask 2
>> * TODO another task with many subtasks, another subtask 1, another subtask 2
>>
>> Is this possible?
>>
>> The reason is that I have many "tasks with many subtasks", so I have
>> used the setting to hide them in the Agenda. Still, I would like to know
>> something about the contents of such grouping tasks in the agenda, if
>> possible.
>
> Maybe you want the 'org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' variable?
>
> Another more complicated option that I've just begun looking at is the
> :agenda-group capability in the org-super-agenda package on MELPA.  The
> documentation is interesting on the website, but I haven't quite figured
> out the trick to make it work for me.  You can find it here:
>
> https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda

Thanks, I'm already using (setq org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels nil) and
org-super-agenda. Both reduce clutter which is good. OTOH I now lack
information about subtasks that has been removed from the agenda
view. It is this concern i would like to address.



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