Re: due today notification

[Buck Brody <buckbrody@gmail.com>]

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Matt,

Thanks for your suggestions.

The problem with the sparse tree is that a sparse tree will only show the
headlines above the item with a deadline, it will not show the sibling
headlines.  For example, if I used a sparse tree on:

* Fruit
** Apple
*** Macintosh
*** Crab
    DEADLINE: <2010-04-28 Wed>
*** Golden delicious
** Vegetable
*** lettuce
*** squash
*** cucumber


It would look like

* Fruit
*** Crab
    DEADLINE: <2010-04-28 Wed>



Buck




On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:

> Buck Brody <buckbrody@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > >     Might I ask why the sparse tree search above or a simple agenda
> > >     view of deadlines is inadequate? The daily agenda provides a nice
> > >     view of all deadlines, making clear which are due today and which
> > >     are past due. And with a custom agenda command you can see only
> > >     those items that are due today:
> >
> > Assume I have 10 things that must be done for a specific project and
> > two of them must be done today.  I want to be able to know which two
> > are due today, but I still want to see them in the same list as the
> > other 8 items because it gives useful context.
> >
>
> But isn't this precisely what a sparse tree does? I.e., it highlights
> the relevant deadlines but preserves the context...
>
> I dug around in the source code and found a command (normally invoked by
> org-sparse-tree) that shows all deadlines in a file within n days
> (determined by a prefix argument).
>
> If you type...
>
> C-u 1 M-x org-check-deadlines
>
> ...org-mode will highlight all the deadlines in the buffer due today or
> past due. You could bind this to a key.
>
> Best,
> Matt
>

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