Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] deadlines?

[fouvry+emacs-wiki]

Hi Jody,

| > It would be nice to be able to be able to get a list of (all)
| > deadlines defined for different projects.  Deadlines can be
| > stored in the calendar, but they cannot be presented well in an
| > overview.  Would extra machinery in Planner be needed to do that,
| > or is there some existing notation that can deal with it?  IMO,
| > one needs date+time, a description, a project/task and perhaps an
| > ID.  They'd be like a task in that they stay around until they're
| > expired (or the task is done - whichever comes first).
| 
| Can you explain how this is different from a "task" associated with a
| project page?  I also don't know what you mean by "Deadlines can be

In theory, they should probably not be any different, but a plan
can be considerably messed up by other things coming in ("Could
you do this by yesterday"?), and to revise a planning, the
deadlines are important.  That's why I'd like to give them a
special status.

| stored in the calendar"?  Are you referring to diary entries?  

Yes, I am.  The "problem" is that if they're stored as diary
entries, you don't really see them until it's perhaps too late,
as well as the fact that you cannot get them out, unless perhaps
they're marked with "deadline" or so (then they could be
grep'ed).

| What I do is put appointments in the diary (and use planner-diary to
| display them on my plan page).  Project deadlines are built into the

That I do as well.

| tasks for that project.  

It's an option.  The problem is that I have many projects (or
subprojects), all with different deadlines.  Within one project,
I'd be happy to define them as tasks.  Having many projects (many
of them with rather fuzzy boundaries), I'd like the possibility
of viewing all deadlines together, chronologically sorted.

| Perhaps you need something more fancy then that?  If so please give
| an example of what you think it should look like?

I don't think it should be very fancy.  I'm more trying to think
(aloud) of how one could go about it.  Whereas I was first
imagining an extra section on a project page (* Deadlines), I'm
now tending towards an annotation (#D1 or #X0; or {{Deadline}};
or ...) because they're probably more task-like.

Cheers,

Frederik