Deadline->scheduled workflow

* Deadline->scheduled workflow
@ 2010-02-15  9:56 Norbert Zeh
  2010-02-16  4:53 ` Carsten Dominik
  2010-02-17 22:28 ` Carsten Dominik
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Norbert Zeh @ 2010-02-15  9:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Hi folks,

I have a question whether the following workflow is possible in orgmode:

- I create a task with a given deadline some time in the future.  I
  don't want to worry about scheduling it.

- I configure deadline warnings to I get a warning that a deadline is
  coming up, say 4 weeks before the deadline.  When I see this warning,
  I know I will have to schedule the task to work on it.

- Now, with the 4-weeks warning, it would be rather annoying to have the
  task show up on every day for the 4 weeks before the task needs to be
  completed.  So I would like upcoming deadlines to show up in my agenda
  view only if the task is not scheduled yet.

Ideally, I think a 2-layered warning system for deadlines would be
useful above.  Warn 4 weeks in advance for unscheduled tasks that have a
deadline coming up.  Warn, say, 7 days in advance for scheduled but
not completed tasks that have a deadline coming up.  Is there any way to
do any of this in orgmode, possibly with some lisp hacking?

Thanks,
Norbert

-- 
"And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly
rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all."
  -- Neal Stephenson, Anathem

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