emacs org mode agenda: in today's view do not show items with deadline for tomorrow

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I have items that have a deadline for today and repeat daily, eg:

  • TODO [#A] Exercise DEADLINE: <2020-09-08 Tue ++1d>

If this TODO has a deadline of today, that is great, I would like to see it in the agenda for today.

When I mark this TODO as done, and it then gets the deadline date to be tomorrow, it still shows up in the agenda for today prefaced by:

In 1 d.

And I dont want to see any items listed today that have a deadline for tomorrow.

Is there any way to set emacs org mode to do this?

I tried

(setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 'future)

But this does not work.

Thanks ahead of time....

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Don't make it a DEADLINE? DEADLINE is for things that need to be done by a certain day, so Org mode specifically warns you about them ahead of time. For things, like "Exercise", you can use plain time stamps or habits. - NickD
Hey NickD, Thank you for your help! I am new to org mode and was inserting timestamps using the deadline command and was not aware I could just insert a timestamp without a deadline and make it recurring and it would still show up in agenda. So my question was a noon question but thank you for still being so helpful. - ironfish

2 Answers

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First, to answer your question. It is possible to specify the lead time for warnings for each task as follows - the -0d says warnings should be zero days in advance:

DEADLINE: <2020-09-22 Tue +1d -0d>

This would allow you to do what I think your asking, without the heavy hammer of setting org-deadline-warning-days to 0.

Second, as several people mentioned, perhaps you want to schedule things for each day, not have a deadline for them each day.

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see 8.3 Deadlines and Scheduling

In addition, the agenda for today carries a warning about the approaching or missed deadline, starting org-deadline-warning-days before the due date

you can customize the variable org-deadline-warning-days to 0to disable the prewarnings.