I know I'm bumping a thread from 5 years ago :) Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org> writes:
> Gijs Hillenius <gijs <at> hillenius.net> writes: > > > But maybe I should not . But here goes: I plan to start working on > > an item by date X -> schedule stamp. The item has a deadline, so -> > > deadline. > > For that I use `org-deadline-warning-days'. I start the deadline when > it shows up in my agenda. The default value for this is 14, but you can > set a value for each deadline like this: > > DEADLINE: <2004-02-29 Sun -10d> > > Meaning that you should start the deadline 10 days before the deadline. > > ,----[ (info "(org)Deadlines and scheduling") ] > | You can specify a different lead time for warnings for a specific > | deadlines using the following syntax. Here is an example with a > | warning period of 5 days `DEADLINE: <2004-02-29 Sun -5d>'. > `---- I think what the OP wanted (and what lead me to this thread) is an advanced warning for *scheduled* items. For example, I'd like to know on the Friday before that I have a scheduled item starting on the Monday. To do this I SCHEDULE the item to Monday and then also set a DEADLINE for Monday, which will obviously warn be in advance. I'm not unhappy with this solution, but I was wondering if there were an alternative.
