Andrew M. Nuxoll <nux...@up.edu> wrote: > Also, Dominick said you had to be nice to me while he was away. >
Just an FYI (a nice one since Carsten said so :-): Carsten is the first name, Dominik (no c) is the surname of the creator of Org-mode. And I promise we'll be nice even after he comes back :-) > 1. When I view my agenda for a day it displays TODO items twice if they > are both SCHEDULED and DEADLINEd (a common occurrence for me). Can this > be avoided? Here's a generic example snippet from my agenda: > Thursday 9 July 2009 > nux: Scheduled: TODO [#B] Call Mary :PROJECT:: > nux: In 1 d.: TODO [#B] Call Mary :PROJECT:: > I think you SCHEDULE an item on a given day, in order to start working on it on that day. There is generally no penalty for taking perhaps a long time to finish it, or rescheduling it for a later time. All that happens is that at some point in the future it'll pop up in the agenda. DEADLINE on the other hand implies a penalty: if you don't finish it by the deadline, something bad is going to happen. It then starts appearing in the agenda a few days before the actual deadline to remind you of the dire consequences, should you miss the deadline. How many days before is controllable either by a global variable or by modifying the timestamp (see section 8.3 of the manual: Deadlines and Scheduling). Apologies if you already know the details, but I wanted to highlight the difference between these two. So let me turn the question around: why do you need to both SCHEDULE and DEADLINE the same item? > 2. Once a TODO item has been marked as DONE, it still shows up on my > agenda. Can this be avoided? > I believe this was answered already. > > Meta-Comments on Questions 1&2: I realize I have the option of using > the "ToDo Items" agenda view instead of the day/week agenda view but > that doesn't work for me because I use the SCHEDULED property as a way > of selecting a small subset of tasks for the day from a long list of > TODO items. I also rely heavily upon repeating tasks to automate most > of this. So maybe the solution to #1 and #2 is to use a custom agenda > of some sort but I don't see an obvious way to create one that does what > I want. > > 3. Once I set a deadline for a task, it'd be nice if the priority would > increase as the deadline approached. Ideally the criteria for > increasing the priority could be specified via a customizable formula. > Does this functionality (or anything like it) exist? > I don't think anything like that exists, but with a Small[1] Amount of Programming (TM), it could probably be cobbled up - maybe as a cron job? Nick [1] OK, maybe not so small... _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
