Matt,

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.

Buck

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:

> Hi Buck,
>
> Buck Brody <buckbrody@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Sorry, I don't think I properly described what I am looking for.  I
> > want a visual indicator (like a tag or a face) of tasks due today, but
> > I don't want to do a specific search.  The idea would be that, within a
> > view of all tasks, I would be able to see at a glance which were due
> > today.  Does that make sense?
>
> I'm not aware of any such functionality. One solution, I suppose, would
> be to use org-map-entries and a custom function to add a tag to all
> entries due today. But adding the tags with org-map-entries would likely
> be just as slow as a search, so there may not be much point.
>
> (info "(org) Using the mapping API")
>
> > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
> >
> >     C-c / m DEADLINE="<today>" [RET]
> >
>
> 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:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>      '(("d" "Due today" agenda ""
>         ((org-agenda-entry-types '(:deadline))
>          (org-deadline-warning-days 0)))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Best,
> Matt
>