Re: Using SCHEDULED to indicate task start date

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Robert Goldman wrote:

>
>> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:45:03 +0000
>> From: Nick Bell <mail@nickbell.org>
>> Subject: [Orgmode] Using SCHEDULED to indicate task start date
>> To: Emacs org-mode list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
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>> Dear org-mode users and developers,
>>
>> [Using 6.17 here.]
>>
>> SCHEDULED nicely hides TODOs from agenda views until on/after the
>> SCHEDULED date.
>>
>> I'd like to hide TODOs whose SCHEDULED date is in the future from the
>> global todo list (C-c a t) .

You can do a tags-todo search (`C-c a M') and then use something like

-SCHEDULED>"<today>"

which will exclude entries that are scheduled in the future.

- Carsten

>>
>>
>> 'Org Agenda Todo Ignore Scheduled' option hides all scheduled TODOs,
>> including those whose scheduled date is in the past, so won't work  
>> for me.
>>
>> In other words, I'd like to use SCHEDULED function as a kind of  
>> 'start
>> date' for a TODO, before which it won't appear on agenda or global  
>> todo
>> lists. Is this possible?
>>
>
> I would actually suggest that it would be better to put in some form  
> of
> NOTBEFORE (better name anyone?) that would do the hiding, instead of
> (mis) using SCHEDULED for this purpose.  I looked into the org-mode  
> code
> and it's very nicely structured so that it should not be hard to add
> this.  I have been meaning to get around to it myself, but haven't  
> been
> able to take time away from what I'm paid to do for this "recreational
> programming" yet....
>
>
> best,
> r
>
>
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