11.4 Presentation and Sorting

Before displaying items in an agenda view, Org mode visually prepares the items and sorts them. Each item occupies a single line. The line starts with a prefix that contains the category (see Categories) of the item and other important information. You can customize in which column tags are displayed through org-agenda-tags-column. You can also customize the prefix using the option org-agenda-prefix-format. This prefix is followed by a cleaned-up version of the outline headline associated with the item.

• Categories		Not all tasks are equal.
• Time-of-day specifications		How the agenda knows the time.
• Sorting of agenda items		The order of things.
• Filtering/limiting agenda items		Dynamically narrow the agenda.