From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: declaring items as implicit TODO entries Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:42:17 +0200 Message-ID: <523AC839-9DD6-44B4-8D63-7C6D36944B2F@gmail.com> References: <4BD4BDDE.6000503@letterboxes.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O6HDy-0002qs-Jy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:51:18 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47013 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O6HDu-0002pK-OV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:51:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6HDt-0007I3-EM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:51:14 -0400 Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.78.144]:64628) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6HDt-0007Hs-9o for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:51:13 -0400 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 13so133485eye.34 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:51:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BD4BDDE.6000503@letterboxes.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nick Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Nick, On Apr 26, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Nick wrote: > Hi, > > I have an .org file I currently use as a TODO list. Everything > below a certain > level (currently 3) is a TODO item (of some sort). > > Is there a way to tell org-mode to assume any item below this level > is by > default a TODO item, such that the agenda view displays all of them > which aren't > explicitly marked as DONE? you cannot tell Org to treat any such items as TODO items in the full sense of a TODO item with a keyword. But you can define an agenda search which finds such items: C-c a m LEVEL>2/-DONE RET HTH - Carsten > > Thanks, > > N >