enisozgen / idle-org-agenda

A package that shows your agenda when Emacs is idle

idle-org-agenda

Basically, if you don't touch Emacs idle-org-agenda will display your org-agenda after certain time. That can be useful to remember tasks after come back to work.

This project comes from John Wiegley's mail at the gmane mailing list http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/23047

Installation

MELPA

Just install the idle-org-agenda package!

Manual

Put idle-org-agenda.el in your load-path, and eval (require 'idle-org-agenda').

use-package

Easy try with use-package

   (use-package idle-org-agenda
     :after org-agenda
     :ensure t
     :config (idle-org-agenda-mode))

How it works

Run idle-org-agenda-mode and don't touch the keyboard. :)

Additional Configuration

You can define different agendas by using org-agenda-custom-commands.

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
   (quote
    (("c" . "Categories")
     ("ce" "Emacs" tags-todo "emacs" nil)
     ("cs" "School" tags-todo "school" nil)
     ("cw" "work" tags-todo "work" nil)
     ("cb" "BLOG" tags-todo "blog" nil)
     ("ci" "Important" tags-todo "important" nil)
     ("w" "Weekly agenda" agenda "You can write here your custom agenda"))))

(custom-set-variables
 '(idle-org-agenda-interval 600) ;; 10 x 60 seconds
 '(idle-org-agenda-key "cb")     ;; Choose your specific agenda
 '(idle-org-agenda-mode t))

idle-org-agenda's Issues

Make "org-agenda-quit" work more reliably with org-idle-agenda

Thank you for your work! Org-idle-agenda is actually super useful for me, makes me actually remember to do things.

However, there is a small issue that makes using it a little bit inconvenient.

The behaviour is the following: you have the idle-agenda enabled, and you leave Emacs running for a while. Eventually the idle agenda buffer pops up. After that time, at some point you get back to using Emacs, and naturally, after studying your agenda, you want to close it.

When using a default org agenda, after pressing q, the window (emacs term, nowadays you could say, "pane") disappears along with the agenda buffer. However, this is not the case when that window has been spawned by org-idle-agenda. Would it be possible to make it behave the same way as the "stock" agenda?

Conversely, perhaps it could be better to spawn the idle-agenda in a separate frame (nowadays you would say "window"), or raise it to the top if it had already been spawned.

May I suggest such a feature?