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From: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
Subject: Re: State excluded in agenda
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:49:08 -0400
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To: Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com>
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I just make "CANCELLED" a DONE state, since it represent a state from  
which no
further transitions can take place.  You might also consider a  
"DEFERRED" state,
for tasks you are pushing into the indefinite future.

John

On Nov 15, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Wanrong Lin wrote:

> I have a "CANCELED" TODO state. When I change a scheduled item to  
> this state, I do not want it to show up in the agenda. I still want  
> to keep the original scheduled date or deadline though just in case  
> later I need to activate it again. I can do some tricks like turning  
> the schedule/deadline time stamp into an inactive one. But I think  
> it would be neater if we can have a list of TODO states that will be  
> excluded from the agenda view. Right now the "DONE" state seems to  
> be the only one excluded.