Org-mode: divide agenda by blocks of 20 items

Question

I want to implement Autofocus system in org-mode using agenda views. Autofocus is a time-management system, where you write tasks in a lined notebook with 25-35 lines on a page and you don't start working on the next page until you processed the current page.

By default agenda collects all todos and throws them in a buffer altogether. I want to break these todos by blocks of 20 tasks, for example, so i can process one batch of 20 tasks, then another batch, and so on.

How can i do it? Any solution from using org-mode built-in trick to some emacs lisp snippet is appreciated.

Answer 1

I don't see this going the same way as the agenda usually goes, i.e. chronology, so I don't think there are meant-to-be ways to do that. What comes to my mind, though, is defining your batches with tags (: in the agenda to set tags, say on the first 20), then filtering by tags (/ SPC to filter on tags of the current line).

The first idea I had was basically the same with priorities : S-<up> in the agenda to set them, but then filtering by priority is described here on the mailing list, but doesn't seem that easy.

Answer 2

From the documentation, org-agenda-max-todos and org-agenda-max-entries might be what you are looking for.

Note: I have never used them. I came across these a while ago