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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:46:18 +0100
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To: Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com>
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In Org-mode, by definition, Deadlines are the ones with ahead warnings.
Why don't you just turn the appointments where you need early  
reminders into deadlines?

- Carsten

On Feb 26, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Wanrong Lin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Currently we can set the number of days a deadline should be  
> notified in advance with something like this:
>
> * TODO Do this
> DEADLINE: <2008-03-24 Mon -30d>
>
> But it does not work on a plain active time stamp like this:
>
> * TODO See Doctor
> <2008-03-24 Mon -30d>
>
> Can we consider adding this feature to plain active time stamp? It  
> would be great for appointment notification.
>
> Thanks for giving that a thought.
>
> Wanrong
>
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