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I've got the org-agenda showing all the deadlines and scheduled items for the current week. For items where the deadline is later in the week, they are shown both on the due date and the current day. How do I disable showing tasks with future deadlines on the current date?

As an example, here is my current org-agenda:

Tuesday 6 March 2018 work: Scheduled: TODO Email class telling them to all finish the assignment work: Scheduled: TODO Review survey work: Scheduled: TODO Prepare background info slides work: In 1 d.: TODO Create exam 2 work: In 1 d.: TODO Encryption slides work: In 1 d.: TODO Encryption lab Wednesday 7 March 2018 work: Deadline: TODO Create exam 2 work: Deadline: TODO Encryption slides work: Deadline: TODO Encryption lab

Notice that the last three items under today are duplicated on their due date of Wednesday.

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You want to customise the variable

org-agenda-skip-deadline-prewarning-if-scheduled

setting it to "Remove prewaring if entry is scheduled". (In a setq that would be the value t).

For example

* TODO something DEADLINE: <2018-03-16 Fri> SCHEDULED: <2018-03-14 Wed>

then appears in a weakly agenda as

Week-agenda (W11-W12): Wednesday 14 March 2018 k: Scheduled: TODO something Thursday 15 March 2018 Friday 16 March 2018 k: Deadline: TODO something Saturday 17 March 2018 Sunday 18 March 2018 Monday 19 March 2018 W12 Tuesday 20 March 2018

The possible settings for this variable are

  • "Always show prewarning" (nil)
  • "Remove prewarning prior to scheduled date" (pre-scheduled)
  • "Remove prewarning if entry is scheduled" (t)
  • "Restart prewarning N days before deadline" (integer)

These do not affect showing the deadline on the due date.

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