When inside a file that is part of `org-agenda-file`, the default scope to
search for locations via `db/org-get-location` (used for example when
interactively inserting links) is extended to include all agenda files, and not
only the current buffer. The idea behind this is to consider all agenda files
as one large data collection, and not only individual files. This inhibits the
usual error, when trying to insert links at items located in refile.org, that
links are only displayed for items in refile.org itself – which are usually not
many – when instead links to items in the default org files where actually
requested.
This should not be an issue for performance, as searching through all agenda
files for valid locations is fast even on Windows.
`org-read-date` seems to have bug that it does not consider the hh:mm part of an
input string sometimes. Trying to work around this by using internal times
whenever possible, but it's not complete yet.
Found that the report will only produce reasonable output when always working on
00:00. Left a note in the docstring to warn about this, should be fixed later on.
Use case: do not add a workload report (which usually contains links to all
current tasks) when inserting checklist backlinks; they do not carry any
information and are thus not relevant.
This is the expected behavior: when no start date is given, it should default to
today (the whole day), and not exactly now, so that day increments do not start
in the mid of the day, yielding misleading results.
When refreshing the Org agenda without completing redrawing it (i.e, by calling
`org-agenda-filter-by-tag`), effort estimates where added for every refreshing,
causing them to stack up. We now check whether a summed effort estimate is
already present and remove it before adding it again.
(Maybe one could also just skip the effort recalculation if the a summed effort
estimate is already present, but I am not sure whether this will cause display
inconsistencies when new events are added or old ones are deleted.)
When adding a link to an item via `org-store-link`, and the link is not known
yet, the links is always put at the beginning of the list of currently known
links, as stored in `org-stored-links`. This allows to conveniently insert this
link via `org-insert-link` by just choosing the first element of the list, which
is selected by default.
However, when the link to the requested item is already present in
`org-stored-links`, the link is not pushed to the beginning of
`org-stored-links` by `org-store-link`, but kept where it is. When calling
`org-insert-link` to insert a link to the item, manual selection of the correct
link is required, which is annoying and unnecessarily interrupting the current
workflow. Even worse, when overlooking the notification that the link is
already stored, one will assume that the link to the requested item is at the
top of `org-stored-links` (which is isn't), subsequently inserting false links
when blindly calling `org-insert-link`. (Yes, this has happend to me …)
This patch fixes this issue by ensuring that links to items (regardless whether
they have already been known or not) are always put at the front of the
`org-stored-links`. This patch also removes the rarely used
`db/org-clear-stored-links` function, whose purpose was to provide some kind of
workaround, but turned out not to be convenient enough to actually be
used (because it also removed potentially useful links when clearing the cache).
The original version of `grep-read-files` includes file names in its default
values, giving an irritating completion candidate list when used with ivy.
Changed this to just let `completing-read` do the completion itself.
We are now not merely copying a template from another item, but more abstractly
insert a checklist consisting of backlinks and a template. Update docstring and
function name to reflect that, but keep the old name of `db/org-copy-template`
as an obsolete alias.
Experimental
Backlinks are an integral part of the checklist for the item at point, so why
not include them per default?
Copying is for now done unconditionally and without any customization. If those
will turn out necessary, then they will be added later.
This is different from the previous default start date of today, as now all past
items will also be considered. Additionally, also include the start date (or
today, if not given) to be included in the result table to show all efforts
still left for that day.
Simply replacing the first and last characters of a timestampt with `[` and `]`
is not sufficient when a time range is given with a start timestamp and an end
timestamp, because then the result would be something like `[2022-09-30 Fri
08:00>--<2022-09-30 Fri 09:00]`. So let's replace all `<` with `[` and all `>`
with `]`, just to be save.
This report will list the incremental planned workload between a given time
range using a given increment. This way, one may better at finding time to
schedule new tasks coming in.
The current implementation might be slow, because it's calling a complete
parsing process for each step in the overview report. One could instead think
about calling it only once and then disecting the individual tasks for when they
are planned specifically. But before we dive in these complications, let's
frist see whether the report is worth it.
This special kind of dynamic block inserts all planned tasks between two dates
and sums up it's efforts. This could help in deciding what additional tasks to
accept or what dates to promise for completion of new tasks.
Daniel -