From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Karl Maihofer <ignoramus@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to define a start date for a task?
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:46:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k45uq9fc.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20111218T104618-501@post.gmane.org> (Karl Maihofer's message of "Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:25:31 +0000 (UTC)")
Karl Maihofer <ignoramus@gmx.de> writes:
> Bernt Hansen <bernt <at> norang.ca> writes:
>> I assume you have a few typos in the following description:
>> > I'm not sure if this helps. What I'd like to archive is that an unavailable
>> ^^^^^^^
>> achieve
>
> Of course, that is a typo. ;-)
>
>> > I do not want the task to show up on my daily agenda when it
>> > becomes available.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> not want the task to show up [only] on my daily agenda
>
> But that is not a typo.
>
Ah - sorry about that.
> Correct me, but with your solution, tasks become available
> (schedule date arrives) and then they will show up on the
> daily agenda. And they will show up there every day until
> I mark the task as done. That is not really what I'd like
> to achieve (not archive!) since tasks with start dates are
> tasks I can do when the start date arrived but do not have
> to do on a special date.
That is essentially what SCHEDULED: is for. It shows up on the
scheduled (start) date and stays on your daily agenda until you mark it
done.
If the task is supposed to be on a specific date I just put a plain date
stamp on it (without the SCHEDULED: prefix) I use this for appointments
etc which have a fixed date and time.
>
> My workflow is as follows: I have a look at my daily agenda
> to find out what I have to do that day. There I can find
> tasks that are scheduled or have a deadline. When I finished
The use of SCHEDULED in org-mode can be confusing.
From the org-mode manual
,----
| SCHEDULED
| Meaning: you are planning to start working on that task on the
| given date.
|
| The headline will be listed under the given date(1). In addition,
| a reminder that the scheduled date has passed will be present in
| the compilation for _today_, until the entry is marked DONE, i.e.
| the task will automatically be forwarded until completed.
|
| *** TODO Call Trillian for a date on New Years Eve.
| SCHEDULED: <2004-12-25 Sat>
|
| Important: Scheduling an item in Org-mode should not be understood
| in the same way that we understand scheduling a meeting. Setting
| a date for a meeting is just a simple appointment, you should mark
| this entry with a simple plain timestamp, to get this item shown
| on the date where it applies. This is a frequent misunderstanding
| by Org users. In Org-mode, scheduling means setting a date when
| you want to start working on an action item.
`----
> these tasks and still have time to do some more work, I do
> agenda searches for tags and/or todo keywords. So, tasks
> with only a start date should never show up on my daily
> agenda. They should be hidden from all agenda searches until
> the start date arrives. Until then they should be available
> for all agenda searches (but they should not show up on the
> daily agenda list until I define a schedule date).
>
> Is that also possible or am I the only person that has a
> need for this? ;-)
I think you'll need to write a custom agenda skip function that skips
your tasks with an inactive START: [date] in the future. I don't know
of a way to apply a custom skip function to the global todo and tags
searches so you'll probably need to use custom agenda searches for this.
Regards,
Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-18 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-17 20:14 How to define a start date for a task? Karl Maihofer
2011-12-17 20:36 ` Karl Voit
2011-12-17 21:04 ` Karl Maihofer
2011-12-17 21:57 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-12-18 10:25 ` Karl Maihofer
2011-12-18 11:41 ` Viktor Rosenfeld
2011-12-18 12:53 ` Karl Maihofer
2011-12-18 16:30 ` Viktor Rosenfeld
2011-12-18 18:32 ` Karl Maihofer
2011-12-19 7:28 ` Viktor Rosenfeld
2011-12-18 13:46 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2011-12-18 14:37 ` Karl Maihofer
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