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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Subject: Re: Occurance property, or some similar name?
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:28:22 -0400
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To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: theo <theocrite@theocrite.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:

> theo <theocrite@theocrite.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 12/04/2011 00:42, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>>> I was once one of the many people who apparently originally
>>> misunderstood what "SCHEDULED" meant, and used to set it to like, an
>>> appointment time.
>>
>> That's what I do.
>>
>> Maybe I lack background, but why do you think it's not appropriate for
>> this use?
>
> So when it comes to TODO like things, SCHEDULED is when you should start
> working on it, DEADLINE is when it's due.
>
> One side effect of doing it "wrong" is that non-TODO items that are
> SCHEDULED stay on your agenda forever (or until archived, and still
> forever with archive view on), which is nasty.

There is a nice FAQ on this:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#scheduled-vs-deadline-vs-timestamp

Best,
Matt