Re: Scheduled events persists unless deleted

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Brian van den Broek <broek@cc.umanitoba.ca>
Cc: Carl Bolduc <drcurl@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Scheduled events persists unless deleted
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 15:54:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5f29193520d02c5dee0607ac321bf59@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46DEAD7B.4010706@cc.umanitoba.ca>

This is becoming a FAQ, if anyone has an idea how I should
present this more clearly in the documentation, let me know.

- Carsten

On Sep 5, 2007, at 15:22, Brian van den Broek wrote:

> Carl Bolduc said unto the world upon 09/05/2007 09:02 AM:
>> Hi!
>> Still very new to Org... my setup is very simple at the moment, 1 
>> file for
>> work and 1 file for home. At the top of each of those files, I keep a 
>> "*
>> Event" entry and I put my meetings and events under there.
>> If , for example, and event is scheduled for yesterday, it will show 
>> up
>> today as well in my agenda, with "2x" in front of it. I have to 
>> delete the
>> entry if I want it to go away. Since these are often not related to 
>> ToDo, I
>> would like to keep them but I would like them to appear only on the 
>> day they
>> are scheduled.
>> Is it possible?
>> Thanks,
>> Carl
>
> Hi Carl,
>
> I'm pretty new, too. But, for an event such as a meeting, have you 
> tried not scheduling it, but instead simply marking it with an active 
> timestamp? Try something like this:
>
> * Events
>
> ** Meeting with with Pat about foos and bars
>    <2007-09-09 10:30-12:00>
>
> *** TODO Prepare notes on foos and bars for meeting with Pat
>     SCHEDULED: <2007-09-04 Thu> DEADLINE: <2007-09-08 Mon -2d>
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Brian vdB
>
>
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