Org-mode Agendas

org-agendas.txt

    Before we talk about Agendas in org-mode I need to add two more
    things that I forgot to add last time. The first are a few basic
    global key bindings you should have for org-mode in your .emacs
    file.



  1:  (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
  2:  (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
  3:  (global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)


   - 1 org-store-link will allow you to setup links anywhere in emacs.
   - 2 org-agenda will bring up the Agenda dispatcher.
   - 3 org-iswitchb Allows you to switch between org-mode
     buffers.

     The second thing are properties. Properties are key value pairs
     that can be add to any heading. To create one use "C-c C-x p". It
     looks like this:



  1:  :PROPERTIES:
  2:  :Case:     34243
  3:  :Effort:   4h
  4:  :END:


     To add more properties, use the same keyboard command as before as
     long as you are under the same heading it will let you add a new
     key value pair. The main difference between tags and properties
     is that properties don't show up when you export the file to a
     different format. There usefulness will be more obvious in the
     agenda.

     When you bring up the Agenda and choose the option 'a' for The
     weekly agenda, you see something like this:



   1:  Week-agenda (W07):
   2:  Monday     13 February 2012 W07
   3:  Tuesday    14 February 2012
   4:  Wednesday  15 February 2012
   5:    org-tutorial:Scheduled:  STARTED Agendas                  :yammer:emacs_users:
   6:    org-tutorial:Scheduled:  TODO Plain Lists                 :yammer:emacs_users:
   7:    org-tutorial:Scheduled:  TODO Markup                      :yammer:emacs_users:
   8:    org-tutorial:Scheduled:  TODO Tables                      :yammer:emacs_users:
   9:    org-tutorial:Scheduled:  TODO Spreadsheet                 :yammer:emacs_users:
  10:    org-tutorial:Scheduled:  TODO Babel                       :yammer:emacs_users:
  11:  Thursday   16 February 2012
  12:  Friday     17 February 2012
  13:    org-tutorial:Sched. 3x:  STARTED Agendas                  :yammer:emacs_users:
  14:    org-tutorial:Sched. 3x:  TODO Plain Lists                 :yammer:emacs_users:
  15:    org-tutorial:Sched. 3x:  TODO Markup                      :yammer:emacs_users:
  16:    org-tutorial:Sched. 3x:  TODO Tables                      :yammer:emacs_users:
  17:    org-tutorial:Sched. 3x:  TODO Spreadsheet                 :yammer:emacs_users:
  18:    org-tutorial:Sched. 3x:  TODO Babel                       :yammer:emacs_users:
  19:  Saturday   18 February 2012
  20:  Sunday     19 February 2012


     As you can see, it shows you the days of the week, what file the
     item came from, when something was scheduled, what's scheduled for
     the day and the tags. You move up and down with the keys 'p' and
     'n'. Quit with 'q'. And if you move to a line hit 'return' you
     will be taken to that file and to the line of the item.

     I use the weekly agenda the most but after that I use the 'm'
     option that allows you to search for tags and properties.

     The other options are also useful. They can be found here
     [http://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-dispatcher.html#Agenda-dispatcher].

     Well that's the basics of org-agendas. Next time the topic will
     be plain lists.