Thats exactly what i was looking for. does anyone know or show me an example of how to create a org-agenda-custom-commands with the 'S' from above where i would go C-a 'x' and it would auto search all TODO headers for a custom string? thx so much! Z On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo < jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu> wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > whats the suggested/best way to search (or generate a list/agenda view) >> only for TODO marked headers contains a specific word. for a use case >> example, i want to show all TODO headers what have a colleague name in them >> ('Allan') >> > > Probably: > > M-x org-agenda S Allan > > Best, > -- > Jorge. >