[Orgmode] Re: due today notification

[Matthew Lundin]

Hi Buck,

Buck Brody <address@hidden> writes:

> Sorry, I don't think I properly described what I am looking for.  I
> want a visual indicator (like a tag or a face) of tasks due today, but
> I don't want to do a specific search.  The idea would be that, within a
> view of all tasks, I would be able to see at a glance which were due
> today.  Does that make sense?

I'm not aware of any such functionality. One solution, I suppose, would
be to use org-map-entries and a custom function to add a tag to all
entries due today. But adding the tags with org-map-entries would likely
be just as slow as a search, so there may not be much point.

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> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Matt Lundin <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     C-c / m DEADLINE="<today>" [RET]
>    

Might I ask why the sparse tree search above or a simple agenda view of
deadlines is inadequate? The daily agenda provides a nice view of all
deadlines, making clear which are due today and which are past due. And
with a custom agenda command you can see only those items that are due
today:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands 
      '(("d" "Due today" agenda ""
         ((org-agenda-entry-types '(:deadline))
          (org-deadline-warning-days 0)))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Best,
Matt