From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Goldman Subject: Hide-until (release time) for todos? Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:00:01 -0600 Message-ID: <4962AD11.1040101@sift.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LK0Im-0001Nv-To for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:00:12 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LK0Il-0001NT-43 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:00:12 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58857 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LK0Ik-0001NQ-VC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:00:10 -0500 Received: from outbound-mail-23.bluehost.com ([69.89.21.18]:39044) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LK0Ik-0004hu-Bm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:00:10 -0500 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Has anyone implemented a property that's the opposite of deadline for Org TODOs? What I'd like is a property I could put on a TODO that would hide it from agenda display (probably with some preference that would permit unfiltered display) until a specified date. This would keep me from being overwhelmed by tasks that I have deferred. Another possibility, I suppose, would be to have a special DEFERRED TODO keyword, and just hide all the deferred tasks. But then I would like some processing that would automagically un-defer them later. On the one hand, having TODO items change their status without human intervention doesn't seem to be in the spirit of Org. On the other hand, it seems a bit odd to have a task that is TODO, but hidden --- it seems like the TODO keyword should parallel the state. As the tone of this email may suggest, I'm thinking about trying to implement such a facility, so my questions really are: 1. Does this exist already? ISTR someone asking for this earlier, but I didn't see a positive response to that earlier request. 2. If the answer is "no," I'd welcome any suggestions for how to implement this. For setting, looks like cloning org-deadline and tweaking org-add-planning-info would be relatively straightforward; then I'd need to look into modifying the agenda commands. Best, r