--- In shadow-discuss@y..., Jeff Mitchell <support@s...> wrote:
> I always envisioned people would use the target date as the
real
> item in datebk, with an alarm really far ahead. I could add finish
and/or
> start dates to the datebook and todo as well, but it seems a bit
much. I
> forget if floating dates will work with linking.. I think Datebk4
deletes
> the floating item, and creates it later, to do floats. Deleting an
item
> breaks the link, even if it gets recreates (as a wholly new, but
> identical) item.

Well, I can see this being something different users will want
different ways, I certainly understand what I am asking for is not
what everyone would want. Here is my scenario - I want to be able to
setup my long term and short term projects, with project tracking in
shadow. I would like to be able to say that I need to finish
project_A by May 1st. What I really NEED though, to keep focused, is
a todo item that -*STAYS*- at the top of my todo list in datebk4d
until I check it off, hopefully well ahead of May 1st. If I
configure datebk4d to show only those todo items with priorities
higher than 5, then I can choose at the beginning of each week which
of my todo items to make visible so I will work on my priority
items. Therefore, I would like the todo items I create in shadow to
default to a priority of 5. So if I set a target date of May 1st,
and a start date of today, I would like to have an alarm for May 1st,
as well as a todo item "due" today. Is that possible?

That said, I completely realize this is not how everyone is going to
want things. I truly believe, however, that if this functionality
existed, I would not be the only one using it.

> > If I can't do that, I may try creating the appointments in
datebk4d
> > and then linking to them in shadow. I just want to know what my
> > options are.
>
> Shadow 1.5 will be able to create shadow items based on
existing
> datebook and todo items. Right now you typically create items in
Shadow,
> and link them out. In 1.5, you'll be able to enter shadow and
say "wait, I
> created it somewhere else, let me add it to my shadow list".

I took a look at the latest snapshot (1.4.10) and I didn't see any
way to link to existing todo's. I saw a way to link to existing
addressbook and memopad records, but not to existing todo or datebook
records. Is this the same place that will eventually have support
for existing todos?

-Joe Chott