State excluded in agenda

State excluded in agenda

[Wanrong Lin]

Hi,

I have a "CANCELED" TODO state. When I change a scheduled item to this 
state, I do not want it to show up in the agenda. I still want to keep 
the original scheduled date or deadline though just in case later I need 
to activate it again. I can do some tricks like turning the 
schedule/deadline time stamp into an inactive one. But I think it would 
be neater if we can have a list of TODO states that will be excluded 
from the agenda view. Right now the "DONE" state seems to be the only 
one excluded.

Maybe there is already something like that and I just did not find it? 
Any comments? Thank you.

Wanrong

Re: State excluded in agenda

[John Wiegley]

I just make "CANCELLED" a DONE state, since it represent a state from  
which no
further transitions can take place.  You might also consider a  
"DEFERRED" state,
for tasks you are pushing into the indefinite future.

John

On Nov 15, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Wanrong Lin wrote:

> I have a "CANCELED" TODO state. When I change a scheduled item to  
> this state, I do not want it to show up in the agenda. I still want  
> to keep the original scheduled date or deadline though just in case  
> later I need to activate it again. I can do some tricks like turning  
> the schedule/deadline time stamp into an inactive one. But I think  
> it would be neater if we can have a list of TODO states that will be  
> excluded from the agenda view. Right now the "DONE" state seems to  
> be the only one excluded.

Re: State excluded in agenda

[Wanrong Lin]

Thank you. I read the manual again and found that actually I can have 
multiple "DONE" states so your suggestion works very well (with 
org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done set to t). I do have a "HOLD" state, 
which is equivalent to your "DEFERRED" state.

Wanrong

John Wiegley wrote:
> I just make "CANCELLED" a DONE state, since it represent a state from 
> which no
> further transitions can take place.  You might also consider a 
> "DEFERRED" state,
> for tasks you are pushing into the indefinite future.
>
> John
>
> On Nov 15, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Wanrong Lin wrote:
>
>> I have a "CANCELED" TODO state. When I change a scheduled item to 
>> this state, I do not want it to show up in the agenda. I still want 
>> to keep the original scheduled date or deadline though just in case 
>> later I need to activate it again. I can do some tricks like turning 
>> the schedule/deadline time stamp into an inactive one. But I think it 
>> would be neater if we can have a list of TODO states that will be 
>> excluded from the agenda view. Right now the "DONE" state seems to be 
>> the only one excluded.
>