Hi, you could enter the start using an inactive timestamp (optionally as a property value). Then the entry would not show up on the agenda. The "Advanced searching" tutorial on Worg explains how you can search for inactive timestamps or property values:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.html#special-properties Cheers, Viktor Karl Maihofer wrote: > Hi Bernt, > > Bernt Hansen <bernt <at> norang.ca> writes: > > I assume you have a few typos in the following description: > > > I'm not sure if this helps. What I'd like to archive is that an > > > unavailable > > ^^^^^^^ > > achieve > > Of course, that is a typo. ;-) > > > > I do not want the task to show up on my daily agenda when it > > > becomes available. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > not want the task to show up [only] on my daily agenda > > But that is not a typo. > > Correct me, but with your solution, tasks become available > (schedule date arrives) and then they will show up on the > daily agenda. And they will show up there every day until > I mark the task as done. That is not really what I'd like > to achieve (not archive!) since tasks with start dates are > tasks I can do when the start date arrived but do not have > to do on a special date. > > My workflow is as follows: I have a look at my daily agenda > to find out what I have to do that day. There I can find > tasks that are scheduled or have a deadline. When I finished > these tasks and still have time to do some more work, I do > agenda searches for tags and/or todo keywords. So, tasks > with only a start date should never show up on my daily > agenda. They should be hidden from all agenda searches until > the start date arrives. Until then they should be available > for all agenda searches (but they should not show up on the > daily agenda list until I define a schedule date). > > Is that also possible or am I the only person that has a > need for this? ;-) > > Thanks for your help! > > Regards, > Karl > >
