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Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions
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Nick Dokos |
Subject: |
Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:16:12 -0400 |
Andrew M. Nuxoll <address@hidden> 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...
- [Orgmode] Newbie Questions, Andrew M. Nuxoll, 2009/07/09
- Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions, Brian van den Broek, 2009/07/09
- Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions,
Nick Dokos <=
- Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions, Andrew M. Nuxoll, 2009/07/10
- Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions, Ian Barton, 2009/07/10
- Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions, Eric S Fraga, 2009/07/10
- Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions, Nick Dokos, 2009/07/10
- Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions, Nicolas Goaziou, 2009/07/10
- Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions, Eric S Fraga, 2009/07/10
- Re: [Orgmode] Newbie Questions, Eric S Fraga, 2009/07/10
[Orgmode] Re: Newbie Questions, Memnon Anon, 2009/07/10