[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: deadlines?

[Sacha Chua]

address@hidden writes:

>>Incidentally, you can tell your diary to display N days in advance.
>>You can have a separate diary file for deadlines, too.
> Sacha, how would this work?
> I've got a ~/diary where I keep all my appointments, so how:
>  - would specify an alternate diary for deadlines,
>  - when I needed to set a deadline, would I specify that it be written
>    to the deadline diary?
>  - can I have planner pull information in from multiple diary files?

You can have Diary pull information in from multiple diary files by
adding a line like this to your ~/.diary :

#include ~/.diary.deadlines

although come to think of it, you probably don't need a separate file.
Keeping it in a separate file makes it easy to review all of the
deadlines you have, though.

http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/emacs/planner-config.el has some elisp
to schedule a task. It creates a diary entry of the form

19:30 | 21:30 | Attend PinoyJUG meeting at APC Room 318 {{Tasks:1089}} 
{{Schedule:19:30-21:30}}  

It should be possible to modify this to store deadlines instead of
schedules.

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