Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

[Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com>]

Changing appointment time stamp into deadline will work, but I just 
think conceptually it is kind of twisted, because "deadline" means you 
have to do it BEFORE the specified time, while "appointment" means you 
have to do it at the specified time. Many calendar systems (like Google) 
support ahead notifications for appointments, so maybe we can consider 
extending the definition of ahead warnings in org-mode to scheduled 
items and active time stamps. Just my 2 cents. (Or, maybe I should make 
a better habit of looking ahead a few days in my agenda buffer. :-))

Wanrong

Carsten Dominik wrote:
> In Org-mode, by definition, Deadlines are the ones with ahead warnings.
> Why don't you just turn the appointments where you need early 
> reminders into deadlines?
>
> - Carsten
>
> On Feb 26, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Wanrong Lin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Currently we can set the number of days a deadline should be notified 
>> in advance with something like this:
>>
>> * TODO Do this
>> DEADLINE: <2008-03-24 Mon -30d>
>>
>> But it does not work on a plain active time stamp like this:
>>
>> * TODO See Doctor
>> <2008-03-24 Mon -30d>
>>
>> Can we consider adding this feature to plain active time stamp? It 
>> would be great for appointment notification.
>>
>> Thanks for giving that a thought.
>>
>> Wanrong
>>
>>
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