todo-mode: Todo Items as Diary Entries
1.2 Todo Items as Diary Entries
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You can have todo items show up in the Emacs Fancy Diary display by
including the todo file in your diary file (
(emacs)Fancy Diary
Display). This effectively augments the Emacs diary with categorized
diary entries. All items in an included todo file will appear in the
Fancy Diary display except for those that are marked with
‘todo-nondiary-marker’. You can add or omit this marking upon creating
Inserting New Items:: and Editing Item Headers and Text for
details.
To ensure the proper display of todo items in the Fancy Diary
display, they must have the format of diary entries, i.e., they have to
begin with a date string recognized by the Emacs diary,(1) and if they
are longer than one line, all lines but the first must begin with white
space. Todo mode ensures that these requirements are satisfied (
Other Display Commands and Options).
The Fancy Diary display is also Todo mode aware: if it contains an
item from a Todo mode file, clicking or typing <RET> on this item will
switch to the buffer visiting that file and properly display the item’s
category, with point on the item.
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) Two types of dates recognized by the Emacs diary are not
supported in the current Todo mode implementation: sexp diary entries
and date strings in which the year is omitted (however, the latter type
is equivalent to using ‘*’ for an arbitrary year, which Todo mode does
support).
Info Catalog
todo-mode: Levels of Organization
todo-mode: Overview