[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Deadlines

[Sacha Chua]

Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't know - may be my question has been answered already, but I
> couldn't find it in the Archs. Is there a way to "teach" planner
> something about duration of a project and deadlines ... e.g. I know
> of all the tasks to be accomplished but do not know about when to
> begin - just when they have to be finished?

I usually add "until yyyy.mm.dd" to my tasks. If I don't know when to
begin, I guess. <grin> It's easy to procrastinate, anyway. When I find
my task lisk getting long (or tasks getting embarrassingly
procrastinated), I C-c C-c un-urgent to a nil date so they just show
up on the project page. Of course, I need to make sure I check said
project page every so often.

It would be interesting to have something along the lines of

{{Deadline: 2004.11.10: 2 days}}

where the thing after the date gets rewritten upon M-x
planner-copy-or-move-task. Alternatively, we could have a
planner-deadline.el that parses all tasks with deadlines and
highlights them in some bright color so that you feel guilty.
How would you like it to behave?

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