By default, planner does a little bit of fancy reformatting when you save a file. Tasks are sorted by priority (ABC) and status (_oP>XC) on day pages. On plan pages, tasks are sorted by priority (ABC), status (XC), and date. Undated tasks are sorted after dated tasks.
Control task sorting. Some options include
planner-sort-tasks-default-key,planner-sort-tasks-basic,planner-sort-tasks-by-date, andplanner-sort-tasks-by-link.
This option controls the behavior of task sorting on plan pages. By default, the value ‘9999.99.99’ causes dated tasks to be listed before undated tasks. To sort undated tasks before dated tasks, set this to a blank string.
Non-nil means sort tasks whenever a planner file is saved. On day pages, tasks are sorted by status. On plan pages, they are sorted by status and date. Sorting can take a while.
Non-nil means renumber tasks from 1 to N whenever a planner file is saved. This allows you to refer to tasks in previous day pages using anchors like ‘2003.08.12#A1’. If you use this function, make sure
planner-use-task-numbersis non-nil so that new tasks are created with task numbers.
Non-nil means align tasks whenever a planner file is saved. This causes the status to line up in a neat column if you have less than 100 tasks.
Non-nil means renumber the notes. If most of your notes are only on one page, you might like seeing the notes renumbered if you delete a note in the middle. However, if you use a lot of cross-referencing, note renumbering will break those links.
Sort tasks according to planner-sort-tasks-key-function. By default, sort tasks according to priority and position on day pages, and according to status, priority, date, and position on plan pages.