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Wanrong Lin wrote:
>
>>   
> Thanks a lot for the suggestions, but manual workaround does not work 
> for me, as I want org to take care of giving me a notification in 
> advance in the agenda buffer.
>
> For SCHEDULED and plain active time stamp, I don't think we need to 
> have a default ahead notification setting as with deadlines, but it 
> would really be nice to support the <..... -3d> format. It would be 
> even nicer to have a new keyword (like "SCHEDULED@") that indicates a 
> strictly scheduled item (just a fancy term for "appointment") and 
> hence a default ahead notification setting can be applied. The lack of 
> real appointment support in org-mode in fact is a little bit puzzling 
> to me, since SCHEDULED item may or may not be strictly scheduled, 
> while plain time stamp item may or may not be something that needs to 
> take actions on (as it could be just an event).
>
> Wanrong
>
>

Actually, I was wrong on the "lack of real appointment" support claim 
above. We can define a TODO heading with a *plain* active time stamp as 
an appointment, and hence maybe a default ahead notification can be 
applied to those items.