Thanks! That's quite kind. Just glad to know someone found it useful.

The DEADLINE with an intermediary step would be cool. The only thing I
could think of that might make something like that work is if you might
create a "subtask" that had the DEADLINE and then follow that and resolve
before the actual top level task got resolved, though being a relative
newcomer to org-mode, I have absolutely not a clue how you'd do accomplish
that (sorry). I'm sure there is probably a better way.  =]

Rather than using a note, btw, I've found it much more useful to signify
delegatee with a tag (so, something like :jones:). The advantage is when
you have a meeting with someone or need to refer to their stuff, just sort
all tasks/todos by tag :jones" and you know everything Jones is on the hook
for. I also generally keep a file for someone - usually to organize 1:1
notes and similar and use a setup like:

# jones.org
``` elisp
#+TITLE: Jones

* Jones
:jones:loka:

** Jones 1:1 - 2019-05-03
*** Team Structure and Leads shifts
*** PMS reviews
*** Martech
...
```

Also very handy if you put the TODOs inline with the 1:1 notes as they'll
still be tagged to find them from the personnel buffer.

Anyhow, YMMV but that has worked surprisingly well though it does not solve
your *actual* intermediary/delegated DEADLINE step. Sorry.   =]

ciao!
Daryl.






On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 4:24 PM Fraga, Eric <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Monday, 13 May 2019 at 10:50, Daryl Manning wrote:
> > A surprising (to me, anyway) number of people asked me privately to
> follow
> > up about my setup and how I was using thing, so I promised I would put a
> > blog post together (I had a draft from march anyhow... =] ).
>
> Thanks for this. Very interesting and well written.  It's given me some
> things to think about.
>
> The one feature that I am missing is chained TODOs in the following
> context.  Like you, I spend an inordinate amount of time chasing
> people.  I often have tasks that I delegate.  I change the task to WAIT
> from TODO and add a note that says to whom I have delegated the
> task.  The original task will typically have a DEADLINE but I would like
> to associate a deadline for the delegated step.  This is not easy to
> do.  For instance, I cannot store a link from the agenda view which
> would allow me, from that view, to easily create a new linked task.
>
> Anyway, thanks again.
> --
> Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.2-290-g300f15
>