Thanks a lot, Jan, that explained it very well. Cheers,
Marius On 2011-11-06, at 11:30 , Jan Böcker wrote: > On 11/05/2011 11:35 PM, Marius Hofert wrote: > >> Apparently, the string "SCHEDULED:" is not required for an entry to appear >> in agenda view. > > Hi Marius, > > the difference between <date> and SCHEDULED: <date> is that <date> will > cause the entry to appear in the agenda only on the given day, whereas > SCHEDULED: <date> will also cause the entry to be displayed on the > current day if it is scheduled in the past and has not been marked DONE yet. > > To see what I mean, put the following entries into an agenda file: > > * Test 1 > SCHEDULED: <2011-11-05 Sat> > > * DONE Test 2 > SCHEDULED: <2011-11-05 Sat> > > * Test 3 > <2011-11-05 Sat> > > Because Test 1 it is not marked done, if you refresh your agenda view > today, you will see something like this: > > Sched. 2x: Test 1 > > Test 2 does not show up because it is marked DONE and Test 3 does not > show up because it does not contain the SCHEDULED keyword. > > (Note that Test 1 will only show up on the agenda view for today and the > day it was scheduled for when you look at the agenda view for a day in > the past or future, for example by using the weekly or monthly view or > going forward/backward with the f and b keys. > > For more information, please refer to Section 8.3, "Deadlines and > scheduling", in the Org manual. > > Hope this helps, > Jan