tasks with days remaining?

tasks with days remaining?

[Brian Brooks]

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Does a feature exist in org-mode where you can specify a deadline for a
particular TODO and org-mode displays the days remaining somewhere next to
the task?

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Re: tasks with days remaining?

[Giovanni Ridolfi]

Brian Brooks <brooks.brian@gmail.com> writes:

> Does a feature exist in org-mode where you can specify a deadline for
> a particular TODO and org-mode displays the days remaining somewhere
> next to the task?

the agenda: C-c a a :

Saturday   27 February 2010
  j:          Deadline:   READ Solar Energy Materials Solar Cells

Re: tasks with days remaining?

[Jan Böcker]

On 25.02.2010 01:30, Brian Brooks wrote:
> Does a feature exist in org-mode where you can specify a deadline for a
> particular TODO and org-mode displays the days remaining somewhere next
> to the task?

The feature you are looking for is deadlines; see "8.3 Deadlines and
scheduling" in the manual.

Also, check out the variable org-deadline-warning-days, which defaults
to 14. This means that as soon as the deadline is less than two weeks
away, it will show up in the agenda (and org-mode will display the
number of days remaining).

You can change this number globally through the variable.
To change it for a single deadline to, say, 70 days:
DEADLINE: <2010-02-26 Fr -70d>

AFAIK, the number of days remaining will only be displayed in the agenda
view and there is no feature that displays it in the actual org file.

HTH, Jan