From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Norbert Zeh <nzeh@cs.dal.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Deadline->scheduled workflow
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:53:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6B708BCE-3795-425D-9A8C-541EAADD5AA6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100215095608.GL6068@cs.dal.ca>
Hi Norbert,
this is currently not possible, I am afraid.
You could deal with it by hand, by changing the warning period once
you have scheduled the item.
- Carsten
On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Norbert Zeh wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a question whether the following workflow is possible in
> orgmode:
>
> - I create a task with a given deadline some time in the future. I
> don't want to worry about scheduling it.
>
> - I configure deadline warnings to I get a warning that a deadline is
> coming up, say 4 weeks before the deadline. When I see this warning,
> I know I will have to schedule the task to work on it.
>
> - Now, with the 4-weeks warning, it would be rather annoying to have
> the
> task show up on every day for the 4 weeks before the task needs to be
> completed. So I would like upcoming deadlines to show up in my
> agenda
> view only if the task is not scheduled yet.
>
> Ideally, I think a 2-layered warning system for deadlines would be
> useful above. Warn 4 weeks in advance for unscheduled tasks that
> have a
> deadline coming up. Warn, say, 7 days in advance for scheduled but
> not completed tasks that have a deadline coming up. Is there any
> way to
> do any of this in orgmode, possibly with some lisp hacking?
>
> Thanks,
> Norbert
>
> --
> "And it happened all the time that the compromise between two
> perfectly
> rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all."
> -- Neal Stephenson, Anathem
>
>
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- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-16 4:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-15 9:56 Deadline->scheduled workflow Norbert Zeh
2010-02-16 4:53 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-02-16 8:42 ` Norbert Zeh
2010-02-17 22:28 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-02-17 22:43 ` Norbert Zeh
2010-02-19 23:05 ` Ryan Thompson
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