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Support org-agenda-show-future-repeats to avoid cluttering the agenda with repeated tasks

Open Maltimore opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Does this feature exist in Emacs orgmode core?

Yes

Orgmode link

There doesn't seem to be an entry for it in the orgmode manual, but it's discussed in various places on the internet, including here: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/12609/org-mode-prevent-future-repetitive-entries-from-showing-up-in-agenda-view

Feature value

I have a few tasks that I want to do every day. So I have repeater tasks with date .+1d. However, these tasks now clutter my agenda. I only want to see them for the given day. Emacs Org provides a variable to do this (see above).

Additional context

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Maltimore avatar Jan 07 '23 13:01 Maltimore

For quick reference, the docstring for org-agenda-show-future-repeats says

Non-nil shows repeated entries in the future part of the agenda.
When set to the symbol 'next' only the first future repeat is shown

and for org-agenda-prefer-last-repeat

Non-nil sets date for repeated entries to their last repeat.

When nil, display SCHEDULED and DEADLINE dates at their base
date, and in today’s agenda, as a reminder.  Display plain
time-stamps, on the other hand, at every repeat date in the past
in addition to the base date.

When non-nil, show a repeated entry at its latest repeat date,
possibly being today even if it wasn’t marked as done.  This
setting is useful if you do not always mark repeated entries as
done and, yet, consider that reaching repeat date starts the task
anew.

When set to a list of strings, prefer last repeats only for
entries with these TODO keywords.

jgollenz avatar Jan 10 '23 07:01 jgollenz