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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: "Łukasz Stelmach" <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: search for DEADLINE in warning period
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:28:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eikuioe5.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hqmobzc.fsf@dasa3.iem.pw.edu.pl> ("Łukasz Stelmach"'s message of "Tue\, 09 Feb 2010 13\:00\:23 +0100")

Łukasz Stelmach <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl> writes:

> Greetings.
>
> Is there a way to search for a timestamp, particularly a DEADLINE, that
> is in its warning period?
>
> Eg.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> * TODO Pay the rent
>   DEADLINE: <2010-03-05 Fri -5d +1m>
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> This is a repeatable item so it's always in TODO state and pollutes my
> TODO list for 25 out of 30 days in a month. Doing simple 
> `DEADLINE<="<+5d>"' does not satisfy me because there are notes I would
> like to know about much earlier. That's why I'd like to facilitate the
> timestamps' own warning periods.
>
> It seems to be workaroundable by adding a SCHEDULED date
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> * TODO Pay the rent
>   SCHEDULED: <2010-03-01 +1m>
>   DEADLINE: <2010-03-05 Fri -5d +1m>
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> and searching for `SCHEDULED>="<now>"'. But it builds two logs of
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
>   - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2010-02-01 Mon 14:23]
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Is there a cleaner way to do it?

I remove entries from the global TODO lists using the variables
org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled, org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines,
org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date

This leaves SCHEDULED and DEADLINE items only on the daily agenda view.

So to see deadlines in the warning period I just go to the agenda for
today (C-c a a) and it shows up.

HTH,
Bernt

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-09 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-09 12:00 search for DEADLINE in warning period Łukasz Stelmach
2010-02-09 12:28 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2010-02-09 14:17   ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-02-09 14:22     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-02-09 14:48       ` Matt Lundin
2010-02-10 12:19         ` Carsten Dominik
2010-02-10 18:41           ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-02-11 16:07             ` Carsten Dominik
2010-02-11 17:39               ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-02-11 14:07           ` Matthew Lundin
2010-02-09 13:49 ` Matt Lundin
2010-02-09 13:58   ` Łukasz Stelmach

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