Re: [O] How to define a start date for a task?

2011-12-18 Thread Karl Maihofer
Hi Bernt, Bernt Hansen bernt at norang.ca writes: I assume you have a few typos in the following description: I'm not sure if this helps. What I'd like to archive is that an unavailable ^^^

Re: [O] How to define a start date for a task?

2011-12-18 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, you could enter the start using an inactive timestamp (optionally as a property value). Then the entry would not show up on the agenda. The Advanced searching tutorial on Worg explains how you can search for inactive timestamps or property values:

Re: [O] How to define a start date for a task?

2011-12-18 Thread Karl Maihofer
Hi Viktor, Viktor Rosenfeld listuser36 at googlemail.com writes: you could enter the start using an inactive timestamp (optionally as a property value). Then the entry would not show up on the agenda. The Advanced searching tutorial on Worg explains how you can search for inactive timestamps

Re: [O] How to define a start date for a task?

2011-12-18 Thread Bernt Hansen
Karl Maihofer ignora...@gmx.de writes: Bernt Hansen bernt at norang.ca writes: I assume you have a few typos in the following description: I'm not sure if this helps. What I'd like to archive is that an unavailable ^^^

Re: [O] How to define a start date for a task?

2011-12-18 Thread Karl Maihofer
Bernt Hansen bernt at norang.ca writes: I think you'll need to write a custom agenda skip function that skips your tasks with an inactive START: [date] in the future. I don't know of a way to apply a custom skip function to the global todo and tags searches so you'll probably need to use

Re: [O] How to define a start date for a task?

2011-12-18 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, Thank you! That is interesting. Is my understanding correct, that you meant something like the following. * TODO Task, that can be completed tomorrow or later START: [2011-12-19 Mon] Either like this (which can be queried using TIMESTAMP_IA=2011-12-19 Mon or using a property

Re: [O] How to define a start date for a task?

2011-12-18 Thread Karl Maihofer
Hi Viktor, Viktor Rosenfeld listuser36 at googlemail.com writes: I don't understand why it would show today. The date is in the future (and it's not a deadline) and the timestamp is inactive. It should not show up at all, unless the variable org-agenda-include-inactive-timestamps is set.

Re: [O] How to define a start date for a task?

2011-12-18 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Karl Maihofer wrote: Hi Viktor, Viktor Rosenfeld listuser36 at googlemail.com writes: I don't understand why it would show today. The date is in the future (and it's not a deadline) and the timestamp is inactive. It should not show up at all, unless the variable

[O] How to define a start date for a task?

2011-12-17 Thread Karl Maihofer
Hi, when I used Omnifocus for my task management I made heavy use of start dates to keep unavailable tasks from my tasks lists. If you for example create a task Buy new DVD this task should not be shown in your lists until the DVD is published and available. Is there a possibility to define

Re: [O] How to define a start date for a task?

2011-12-17 Thread Karl Voit
* Karl Maihofer ignora...@gmx.de wrote: when I used Omnifocus for my task management I made heavy use of start dates to keep unavailable tasks from my tasks lists. If you for example create a task Buy new DVD this task should not be shown in your lists until the DVD is published and

Re: [O] How to define a start date for a task?

2011-12-17 Thread Karl Maihofer
Karl Voit devnull at Karl-Voit.at writes: Three things I am using can help you: 1) Use warning periods together with DEADLINE or SCHEDULED: «You can specify a different lead time for warnings for a specific deadlines using the following syntax. Here is an example with a warning period of 5

Re: [O] How to define a start date for a task?

2011-12-17 Thread Bernt Hansen
Karl Maihofer ignora...@gmx.de writes: Karl Voit devnull at Karl-Voit.at writes: Three things I am using can help you: 1) Use warning periods together with DEADLINE or SCHEDULED: «You can specify a different lead time for warnings for a specific deadlines using the following syntax. Here