Re: category in column view?

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

Hi George,

you can now use a %CATEGORY field in column view.

- Carsten

On Oct 17, 2008, at 4:31 PM, George Pearson wrote:

> On 17 Oct 2008 at 15:47, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
>> On Oct 16, 2008, at 10:23 PM, George Pearson wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to display a category column in column view?
>
>> No, there is not, but in the agenda, the category is always shown.   
>> Or
>> are you talking about column view in a buffer, this time around?
>
> I'm talking about the column view obtained from the weekly agenda.
> (i.e. do C-c a a, and then C-c C-x C-c in the resulting agenda  
> buffer).
>
> I like that the category is in the weekly agenda, and would like it to
> appear in the column view as well.  The reason for this is that I am
> using categories as Project titles, to provide context for TODO items.
> For example, I could have a category "Trip plan" with a TODO item
> "review costs".  Without the "Trip plan" category, "review costs" is
> meaningless as it could be applicable to almost anything.
>
> I forgot whose tutorial gave me this category-use idea, but it seemed
> to be a good idea at the time.  Of course, org-mode is so powerful  
> there
> may be other ways of achieving the same goal.
>
>
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