[Orgmode] Re: Sorting TODOs with time-up

[David Engster]

Matthew Lundin <address@hidden> writes:
> David Engster <address@hidden> writes:
>> I guess this should be simple but somehow it's not working for me. I
>> want to generate a todo list which is sorted according to the scheduled
>> date. Consider the following test.org file:

[...]

>> This minimal setup
>>
>> (setq org-agenda-files '("~/orgtest/test.org"))
>> (setq org-agenda-sorting-strategy 
>>       '((agenda time-up priority-down category-keep)
>>      (todo time-up priority-down category-keep)
>>      (tags priority-down category-keep)
>>      (search category-keep)))
>>
>> should sort TODOs according to time, right? But when I do

> As far as I understand it, time-up sorts only by time of day in the
> agenda view. I.e., it will place items that have been scheduled for a
> particular hour at the top of the agenda.
>
> Here's some info from the docstring:
>
> ,----
> | time-up            Put entries with time-of-day indications first, early 
> first
> | time-down          Put entries with time-of-day indications first, late 
> first
> | 
> | Pull out all entries having a specified time of day and sort them,
> | in order to make a time schedule for the current day the first thing in the
> | agenda listing for the day.
> `----

Thanks for the clarification. This is a bit confusing, since sorting by
priority works in the todo list, but sorting with date does not. Also,
since I call the function 'org-agenda', it is a bit unexpected that when
I press 't' afterwards I don't really get an agenda but a TODO list,
which seems to behave differently in some aspects from the normal agenda
view I get when pressing 'a'.

> There is the possibility of using a user-defined function. Perhaps you
> could use that to sort by date.
>
> ,----
> | user-defined-up    Sort according to `org-agenda-cmp-user-defined', high 
> last.
> | user-defined-down  Sort according to `org-agenda-cmp-user-defined', high 
> first.
> `----

Unfortunately, this does not help, since there is no time information in
the entries 'a' and 'b' to sort by; it seems the timestamps are simply
not extracted when building TODO lists.

Thanks for your help,
-David