A small, but useful org-agenda tweak
What I wanted, was simply to jump to the "narrowed" task/subtree.
It turned out that it was way more simple and straight forward than I expected. In fact it is so simple, that even I got it done without producing sweat.
(defun svbck/agenda-goto ()
(interactive)
(org-agenda-goto)
(org-narrow-to-subtree))
And also adding/overriding the keybinding:
(keymap-set org-agenda-keymap "RET" 'svbck/agenda-goto)
And that's it.
And while I was already at it I added the same functionality to consult-agenda-goto
:
(defun svbck/consult-agenda-goto ()
(interactive)
(consult-org-agenda)
(org-narrow-to-subtree))
Naturally I added a custom keybinding to that.
Both of the above have, already after a few days, made working with the agenda much more fluently and efficient.
UPDATE: After publishing this post to Mastodon Christian and Jack had some interesting suggestions to the above setup:
https://fosstodon.org/@svbck/111945739870788047
And one more update a day later
While I still haven't yet successfully managed the same setup with the task showing not narrowed
but as an indirect-buffer
to avoid having to widen
the buffer again, the "narrowed" setup works well for me, as what I originally wanted, is to merely show the task "under" the agenda-view.
I didn't though took into consideration, what happens if one is using a wider window-configuration as I do. I usually only use one window, which is not wide enough for horizontal splits, thus the my "task-view" always shows under the agenda - which is where I want to be in fact.
While that is still a WIP, I had the idea to create a variation of my agenda-goto
function which opens the task in view mode
, which is helpful when all I want have a qukck look at the task as it can be quickly dismissed with q
.
(defun svbck/agenda-goto-view ()
"Jump to the task narrowed but in view mode only to get a glance"
(interactive)
(org-agenda-goto)
(org-narrow-to-subtree)
(view-mode t))
(keymap-set org-agenda-keymap "SPC" 'svbck/agenda-goto-view)
I have some ideas how to built this out a bit more, but that will require more digging around.