org: Sorting agenda items
10.4.3 Sorting agenda items
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Before being inserted into a view, the items are sorted. How this is
done depends on the type of view.
• For the daily/weekly agenda, the items for each day are sorted.
The default order is to first collect all items containing an
explicit time-of-day specification. These entries will be shown at
the beginning of the list, as a _schedule_ for the day. After
that, items remain grouped in categories, in the sequence given by
‘org-agenda-files’. Within each category, items are sorted by
priority (
Priorities), which is composed of the base
priority (2000 for priority ‘A’, 1000 for ‘B’, and 0 for ‘C’), plus
additional increments for overdue scheduled or deadline items.
• For the TODO list, items remain in the order of categories, but
within each category, sorting takes place according to priority
(Priorities). The priority used for sorting derives from
the priority cookie, with additions depending on how close an item
is to its due or scheduled date.
• For tags matches, items are not sorted at all, but just appear in
the sequence in which they are found in the agenda files.
Sorting can be customized using the variable
‘org-agenda-sorting-strategy’, and may also include criteria based on
the estimated effort of an entry (Effort estimates).
Info Catalog
org: Time-of-day specifications
org: Presentation and sorting
org: Filtering/limiting agenda items