Desmond Rivet <desmond_n...@videotron.ca> writes: > What I'm after is something very close to the DEADLINE feature, but not > quite. With DEADLINE, you have the following behavour (unless there's a > way to alter it?): > > * without a TODO state, you get early reminders in your agenda up until > the DEADLINE date, after which you get warnings that the date is > past, forever. > > * with a TODO state item, you get the same thing, except you can turn > off the reminders/warnings by setting the state to DONE. > > So unless you want the DEADLINE'ed date appearing on your agenda forever > after the due date, you need a TODO state
...not before the deadline (see below). > and you need to set it to DONE. Option one (simplest): Omit the todo state before the deadline and then mark the item DONE after the deadline has past.. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- * 6:00pm Appointment DEADLINE: <2010-04-17 Sat -7d> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- until the deadline passes, then --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- * DONE 6:00pm Appointment DEADLINE: <2010-04-17 Sat -7d> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > I am currently using the diary for this, and incorporating it into the > orgmode agenda. I have entries like this: > > %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 11 12 t) -14) Mom's birthday. > > I've been using this system for a while, and it works. But it's not > ideal. For example, I haven't figured out how to incorporate a time > with the date using this system. If I had an appointment on April 17th, > 2010, 6pm, for example, and I wanted a simple reminder 5 days in > advance, I don't know how I'd do that. Option two: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- * Appointments %%(diary-remind '(diary-date 2 15 2010) -7) 6:00pm My appointment --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Which produces the following agenda view: Day-agenda (W06): Friday 12 February 2010 8:00...... ---------------- 10:00...... ---------------- 12:00...... ---------------- 14:00...... ---------------- 16:00...... ---------------- refile: 18:00...... Reminder: Only 3 days until My appointment 20:00...... ---------------- Best, Matt _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode