Add custom markers to emacs org-mode

Question

I'm using emacs org-mode for various purposes. Most common functionality is to mark my tasks with special tags TODO & DONE. Is there a way to add custom tags (e.g IN_PROGRESS) and highlight it with separate color?

Also, would be good, if this tag roll in the same buffer as TODO and DONE so I can switch between them by using the same hotkeys.

Answer 1

I use the following in my init.el, which sets additional task statuses and their styles for all org files:

(setq org-todo-keyword-faces
      '(
        ("NOT-TODO" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold))
        ("IF-TIME" . (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))
        ("NOT-REPRO" . (:foreground "purple" :weight bold))
        ))

(setq org-todo-keywords
      '((sequence "TODO" "NOT-TODO" "NOT-REPRO" "IF-TIME" "DONE")))

Answer 2

You can do as this in the beginning of the file:

#+TODO: TODO IN-PROGRESS WAITING DONE

Press C-c C-c on that line to refresh the setup (not needed for subsequent loads of the file), and everything should be jolly.

As explained here.