[Orgmode] tasks with days remaining?

2010-02-25 Thread Brian Brooks 
Does a feature exist in org-mode where you can specify a deadline for a
particular TODO and org-mode displays the days remaining somewhere next to
the task?
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Re: [Orgmode] tasks with days remaining?

2010-02-25 Thread Giovanni Ridolfi 
Brian Brooks brooks.br...@gmail.com writes:

 Does a feature exist in org-mode where you can specify a deadline for
 a particular TODO and org-mode displays the days remaining somewhere
 next to the task?

the agenda: C-c a a :

Saturday   27 February 2010
  j:  Deadline:   READ Solar Energy Materials Solar Cells


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Re: [Orgmode] tasks with days remaining?

2010-02-25 Thread Jan Böcker 
On 25.02.2010 01:30, Brian Brooks wrote:
 Does a feature exist in org-mode where you can specify a deadline for a
 particular TODO and org-mode displays the days remaining somewhere next
 to the task?

The feature you are looking for is deadlines; see 8.3 Deadlines and
scheduling in the manual.

Also, check out the variable org-deadline-warning-days, which defaults
to 14. This means that as soon as the deadline is less than two weeks
away, it will show up in the agenda (and org-mode will display the
number of days remaining).

You can change this number globally through the variable.
To change it for a single deadline to, say, 70 days:
DEADLINE: 2010-02-26 Fr -70d

AFAIK, the number of days remaining will only be displayed in the agenda
view and there is no feature that displays it in the actual org file.

HTH, Jan


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