todo-mode: Todo Categories Mode
8 Todo Categories Mode
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It can be helpful to have a compact overview of the categories in a todo
file and the types of items it contains; the Todo package provides a
tabular view of this information.
‘F c’
Typing this command (‘todo-show-categories-table’) in Todo mode or
Todo Archive mode switches to a buffer displaying a table that
gives an overview of the categories in the current todo or archive
file. This buffer is in Todo Categories mode.
The table consists of a column containing the names of the categories
in the file, followed by columns containing counts of certain types of
items in each category. With todo files there are four count types: all
todo (i.e., not done) items, diary items (i.e., those todo items lacking
the ‘todo-nondiary-marker’, which hence can appear in the Fancy Diary
display), done (but not archived) items, and archived items. With
archive files all items are done, so the table only has a column for
this count. The final row of the table gives total item counts across
all categories in the file.
Aside from explicitly invoking ‘F c’ to display the table of
categories, you can also arrange to have it displayed on the first
invocation of ‘todo-show’ for a given file (i.e., either using
‘todo-show’ to initiate a Todo session, or calling it in Todo mode to
visit another todo file). To do this customize the option
‘todo-show-first’.
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