Nikolaus Rath writes:
On Apr 06 2015, jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu (Jorge A.
Alfaro-Murillo) wrote:
Nikolaus Rath writes:
However, there's one thing where I feel lost. I don't expect
to be editing my orgmode files on a daily basis (at least not
yet), so how can I make sure that I don't miss an important
deadline? It seems to me that it doesn't help much if instead
of worrying to forget a deadline I now have to worry about
forgetting to check my org-mode agenda... How do other
people handle this? Is everyone else opening and working on
their org files daily so that this becomes a non-issue?
You can put this after your org-agenda-files configuration in
your .emacs:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(appt-activate 1) (org-agenda-to-appt)
#+END_SRC Then you will be reminded of things in your org
files, before the appointment time (I think 12 min is the
default).
Hmm. I tried it with this test-event:
* TODO Test task
SCHEDULED: <2015-04-07 Tue>
But running (org-agenda-to-appt) just gives "No event to add".
Is this because there is no time specified?
Yes.
I'm not really concerned with appointments that have a time
span, but with projects that have specific due dates...
Well that is what the org agenda is for.
If you just can't remember to check the agenda every so often you
could do something like (not tested):
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(run-at-time t 120 'org-agenda-list)
#+END_SRC
To run the agenda every two hours automatically.
Best,
--
Jorge.
