Display Agenda in Reverse Order

Display Agenda in Reverse Order

[Kenneth Jacker]

Looked around some, but could find nothing that helped ...
So I ask the list!

When I display my "agenda", the oldest (scheduled) items are earlier in
the buffer, and the newest (today) are at the very end.

Is there a simple way to reverse that "schedule order"?

Ideally, my "timed" appointments (grid) would be displayed first, and
then followed by today's scheduled items, yesterday's "left over" items,
and so on until the oldest is shown at the very end.

<ASIDE>

As a major procrastinator, I have lines like this:

     personal:   Sched.389x:  TODO  Work on foobar

Yes originally scheduled over a year ago!  :(

I'd rather those very old items were at the *bottom* of the "agenda"
... easier to continue to ignore them that way ... ;-)

</ASIDE>


Thanks for any ideas/suggestions!

-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker (emeritus)  khj@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept            www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA        

Re: Display Agenda in Reverse Order

[Subhan Michael Tindall]

Take a look at

org-agenda-sorting-strategy

It should help you out.  Note though that the timestamp sorting does not work on all agenda types, it's a known bug.


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> Subject: [O] Display Agenda in Reverse Order
> 
> Looked around some, but could find nothing that helped ...
> So I ask the list!
> 
> When I display my "agenda", the oldest (scheduled) items are earlier in the
> buffer, and the newest (today) are at the very end.
> 
> Is there a simple way to reverse that "schedule order"?
> 
> Ideally, my "timed" appointments (grid) would be displayed first, and then
> followed by today's scheduled items, yesterday's "left over" items, and so on
> until the oldest is shown at the very end.
> 
> <ASIDE>
> 
> As a major procrastinator, I have lines like this:
> 
>      personal:   Sched.389x:  TODO  Work on foobar
> 
> Yes originally scheduled over a year ago!  :(
> 
> I'd rather those very old items were at the *bottom* of the "agenda"
> ... easier to continue to ignore them that way ... ;-)
> 
> </ASIDE>
> 
> 
> Thanks for any ideas/suggestions!
> 
> --
> Prof Kenneth H Jacker (emeritus)  khj@cs.appstate.edu
> Computer Science Dept            www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
> Appalachian State Univ
> Boone, NC  28608  USA


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Re: Display Agenda in Reverse Order

[Kenneth Jacker]

  smt> Take a look at
  smt>
  smt>    org-agenda-sorting-strategy

Will do!

  smt> It should help you out.

Once I figure out how to configure it!  ;-)

  smt> Note though that the timestamp sorting does not work on all
  smt> agenda types, it's a known bug.

OK.


Thanks for your useful and prompt reply!


  -Kenneth

Re: Display Agenda in Reverse Order

[Kenneth Jacker]

  smt> Take a look at
  smt>
  smt>    org-agenda-sorting-strategy
  smt>
  smt> It should help you out.

It did ... thanks for the info!

For others who might want to do the same or something similar,
I'll show what I did to change the "sorting order" ...


I changed the value of "org-agenda-sorting-strategy" from this:

   ((agenda habit-down time-up priority-down category-keep)
    (todo priority-down category-keep)
    (tags priority-down category-keep)
    (search category-keep))
   
to this:

   ((agenda habit-down time-up scheduled-down priority-down category-keep)
    (todo priority-down category-keep)
    (tags priority-down category-keep)
    (search category-keep))
   
Inserting "scheduled-down" did "the trick!


Thanks again,

  -Kenneth