Using SCHEDULED to indicate task start date

Using SCHEDULED to indicate task start date

[Nick Bell]

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) .

'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?

Many thanks

Nick
-- 
Nick Bell
mail@nickbell.org

Re: Using SCHEDULED to indicate task start date

[Bernt Hansen]

Nick Bell <mail@nickbell.org> writes:

> [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) .
>
> '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?
>

No, the reason for using any of

   org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled
   org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines
   org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date

is to get those tasks off the global todo list.  They show up in your
agenda at the appropriate time and you don't need them in the global
todo list at all.

I work off my agenda first, and when that's clear then I go to the
global todo list for other tasks - and I don't want to see anything that
has a date there - since they're already set up to show up at the
appropriate time on my agenda.

You might be able to set up a column view that shows the
scheduled/deadline date and then ignore tasks with dates in the past but
I've never tried that.

HTH,
Bernt

Re: Using SCHEDULED to indicate task start date

[Nick Bell]

Bernt Hansen wrote:
> No, the reason for using any of
> 
>    org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled
>    org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines
>    org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date
> 
> is to get those tasks off the global todo list.  They show up in your
> agenda at the appropriate time and you don't need them in the global
> todo list at all.
> 
> I work off my agenda first, and when that's clear then I go to the
> global todo list for other tasks - and I don't want to see anything that
> has a date there - since they're already set up to show up at the
> appropriate time on my agenda.
> 
> You might be able to set up a column view that shows the
> scheduled/deadline date and then ignore tasks with dates in the past but
> I've never tried that.
> 
> HTH,
> Bernt

Thanks, that was helpful - I was overcomplicating things.


Nick

Using SCHEDULED to indicate task start date

[Robert Goldman]

> 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>
> Message-ID: <497DE88F.4040105@nickbell.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> 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) .
> 
> '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

Re: Using SCHEDULED to indicate task start date

[Carsten Dominik]

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>
>> Message-ID: <497DE88F.4040105@nickbell.org>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> 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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