How can I show the Org-mode agenda on Emacs start-up?

Question

I would like the Org-mode agenda to automatically show what I have to do today when I open Emacs. The org-agenda command is interactive, so it doesn\'t seem to work well for

Answer 1

One alternative to the hook is to set the initial-buffer-choice variable. This is particularly useful if there are multiple buffers or a number of functions on the hook. The function on this variable needs to return a buffer. Naively this might be:

(setq initial-buffer-choice (lambda ()
    (org-agenda-list 1)
    (get-buffer "*Org Agenda*")))