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