[Orgmode] Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

2008-02-28 Thread Wanrong Lin
This is good! I did not know such a setting exists. I will use this while Carsten and others think about whether it is worth to have appointment notifications. Thanks a lot! Wanrong Bernt Hansen wrote: Set up your agenda to display today forward. My weekly view always shows today and the n

[Orgmode] Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

2008-02-28 Thread Bernt Hansen
Set up your agenda to display today forward. My weekly view always shows today and the next 6 days. (setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday nil) -Bernt Wanrong Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you can stick to the habit of looking into the next day (especially > on the last day in you weekly a

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

2008-02-28 Thread Wanrong Lin
If you can stick to the habit of looking into the next day (especially on the last day in you weekly agenda), that will work. But I am not reliable on that. And sometimes you may need to look ahead more than one day. I want to be lazy and dumb with the help of org. :-) Wanrong I simply ent

RE: [Orgmode] Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

2008-02-28 Thread Egli Christian (KIRO 433)
Hi Wanrong > To achieve that goal, sometimes I need some sense of what is going to > happen or what I am supposed to do tomorrow, or next a few days, > depending on the task and context. To check agendas ahead every day is a > good habit, but is not reliable, and I want to eliminate dependency

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

2008-02-28 Thread Wanrong Lin
Carsten Dominik wrote: Thanks a lot for the suggestions, but manual workaround does not work for me, as I want org to take care of giving me a notification in advance in the agenda buffer. For SCHEDULED and plain active time stamp, I don't think we need to have a default ahead notification

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

2008-02-28 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Feb 28, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Bastien wrote: Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Feb 28, 2008, at 3:05 AM, Wanrong Lin wrote: For SCHEDULED and plain active time stamp, I don't think we need to have a default ahead notification setting as with deadlines, but it would really be ni

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

2008-02-28 Thread Bastien
Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Feb 28, 2008, at 3:05 AM, Wanrong Lin wrote: >> >> For SCHEDULED and plain active time stamp, I don't think we need to >> have a default ahead notification setting as with deadlines, but it >> would really be nice to support the <. -3d> format.

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

2008-02-27 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Feb 28, 2008, at 3:05 AM, Wanrong Lin wrote: Bastien wrote: Bernt Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Maybe use SCHEDULED: instead of DEADLINE: ? I'm afraid this won't solve Wanrong's problem: you don't get warned about scheduled items. Wanrong: maybe you can turn your items into sche

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

2008-02-27 Thread Wanrong Lin
Wanrong Lin wrote: Thanks a lot for the suggestions, but manual workaround does not work for me, as I want org to take care of giving me a notification in advance in the agenda buffer. For SCHEDULED and plain active time stamp, I don't think we need to have a default ahead notification s

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

2008-02-27 Thread Wanrong Lin
Bastien wrote: Bernt Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Maybe use SCHEDULED: instead of DEADLINE: ? I'm afraid this won't solve Wanrong's problem: you don't get warned about scheduled items. Wanrong: maybe you can turn your items into scheduled items and then use `org-check-before-da

[Orgmode] Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

2008-02-27 Thread Bernt Hansen
Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bernt Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Maybe use SCHEDULED: instead of DEADLINE: ? > > I'm afraid this won't solve Wanrong's problem: you don't get warned > about scheduled items. Oops. You're right - I should have tested that first. Thanks for the c

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

2008-02-27 Thread Bastien
Bernt Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe use SCHEDULED: instead of DEADLINE: ? I'm afraid this won't solve Wanrong's problem: you don't get warned about scheduled items. Wanrong: maybe you can turn your items into scheduled items and then use `org-check-before-date' in the relevant file

[Orgmode] Re: Active timestamp with notification in advance

2008-02-27 Thread Bernt Hansen
Maybe use SCHEDULED: instead of DEADLINE: ? Wanrong Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Changing appointment time stamp into deadline will work, but I just > think conceptually it is kind of twisted, because "deadline" means you > have to do it BEFORE the specified time, while "appointment" means