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From: Viktor Rosenfeld <listuser36@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: How to define a start date for a task?
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Karl Maihofer wrote:

> Hi Viktor,
> 
> Viktor Rosenfeld <listuser36 <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> > I don't understand why it would show today. The date is in the future
> > (and it's not a deadline) and the timestamp is inactive. It should not
> > show up at all, unless the variable
> > org-agenda-include-inactive-timestamps is set.
> 
> What I meant is that such a task is not shown on the daily agenda
> but when I use the agenda to search for all tasks, it is still in the
> list even if the start date is in the future since inactive 
> timestamps are not recognized by the agenda at all.

Do you mean the default "t" search from the agenda menu? You can write
your own search that excludes these tasks. Either write a custom skip
function or use org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date or
org-agenda-todo-ignore-timestamp (not sure if these operate on inactive
timestamps).

Cheers,
Viktor