Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: planner and deadlines

[Sharon Kimble]

On Wednesday 02 Mar 2005 13:12, Chris Lowis wrote:
> > What I'm looking for is the ability to create a task with a deadline [for
> > example, 2005-03-02] and for it to be displayed today with the number of
> > days left to the completion of the deadline.
>
> As I understand it, create a task
> #B  _ This is a task {{Deadline: 2005.03.02}} (ProjectPage)
>
> Then call M-x planner-deadline-update
>
> And your task will look like this :
> #B   _ This is a task {{Deadline: 2005.03.02 - *TODAY*}} (ProjectPage)
>
> You need to call planner-deadline-update by hand, or perhaps someone
> knows how to hook it into M-x plan  ?
>
> planner-deadline-change changes the deadline of the current task.
>
> Chris
=Where= do you create the task? In the mini-buffer, using the 'planner' menu, 
or do you amend it once its created and then do a 'M-x 
planner-deadline-update'? I've even tried inserting it into the plain text 
file but it still didn't work, hence my frustration ...... sorry.

Hopefully thanks
Sharon.
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