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From: Charles Cave <charles_cave@optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Announcing my tutorial on using dates (and times) in org-mode
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I am pleased to announce the publication of my tutorial
on using date and times in org-mode.   Carsten has reviewed
the first draft and I have incorporated his suggestions.

Please send me your comments and I will make a second edition.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/org_dates/

Contents:

     * 1 Org-mode and personal productivity
     * 2 Brief review of org-mode
           o 2.1 User configurable tags
           o 2.2 To do flags
           o 2.3 Dates
     * 3 Exploring Dates
           o 3.1 Simple date format
           o 3.2 Date and time format
           o 3.3 Date Range
     * 4 Agenda View
     * 5 Timeline
     * 6 Repeating events
     * 7 Deadlines and Scheduled Dates
           o 7.1 Deadline Dates
           o 7.2 Repeating Deadlines
           o 7.3 Sparse Tree of Deadlines
           o 7.4 Scheduled Date
     * 8 Editing Dates
           o 8.1 Date Selector Tool
     * 9 Examples
     * 10 Command Summary


I learnt a lot about the functionality of scheduling, deadlines,
repeating intervals and date editing.


Charles