Next: , Previous: Status Reports, Up: Task Reports and Overviews

6.2.3.3 Seeing an Overview of Tasks

You can see a list of tasks with planner-tasks-overview.el. Seeing how you've scheduled tasks over the next few days can help you decide when to schedule another task. Table entries will be of the form

date | link | priority status | task-description

Functions

To display the tasks between a set of day pages, use

— Function: planner-tasks-overview start end

Display an overview of your tasks from start to end. If start is nil, start from the very first day page. If end is nil, include the very last day page. You can use planner-expand-name shortcuts here, like +1 or -1. Pressing <RET> at the prompt will use today.

Once in a planner-tasks-overview buffer, you can use the keyboard shortcut <o> to change the overview period.

You can sort the task display with the following functions:

— Function: planner-tasks-overview-sort-by-date

Sort the tasks by date. Keyboard shortcut: <1>

— Function: planner-tasks-overview-sort-by-plan

Sort the tasks by associated plan page. Keyboard shortcut: <2>

— Function: planner-tasks-overview-sort-by-priority

Sort the tasks by priority. Keyboard shortcut: <3>

— Function: planner-tasks-overview-sort-by-status

Sort the tasks by status. Keyboard shortcut: <4>

You can jump to linked tasks with

— Function: planner-tasks-overview-jump other-window

Display the current task. If a prefix argument is supplied, show the task in another window. Keyboard shortcut: <j>

— Function: planner-tasks-overview-jump-other-window

Display the current task in another window. Keyboard shortcut: C-u j

You can view a summary of the tasks in your plan pages with

— Function: planner-tasks-overview-show-summary &optional file-list

Count unscheduled, scheduled, and completed tasks for FILE-LIST. If called with an interactive prefix, prompt for the plan page(s) to display. Load planner-multi.el to be able to specify multiple pages.

Keys

<TAB>, SHIFT-TAB and <RET> navigate links in the usual fashion.