How to make SCHEDULED and DEADLINE'd todo appear only once in the agenda view in emacs org mode

Question

In org mode, if you create todo and assign DEADLINE to it first, maybe a week before, and then go planning it a few days later, and SCHEDULED todo and DEADLINE todo will appear on my agenda. How can I get rid of the DEADLINE element? This obscures my view of the agenda.

Answer 1

There is a specific variable for what was introduced in commit 8d6aa8f3 (2010-02-17). It should be somewhere around version 6.35.

org-Agenda-skip-deadline-prewarning-if-schedule is a variable defined in `org-Agenda.el '. Its value is nil

Documentation: Non-nil means a preliminary warning about skipping when recording is also planned. This will apply on all days when the deadline will be shown, but not on the day when the record is actually due. On this day, the deadline will be shown anyway. This variable can be set to nil, t or a number that will then give the number of days before the actual deadline when advance warnings should resume. This can be used in a workflow where the first showing of a deadline will call you to schedule it, and then you do not want to be reminded of it because you will take care of it that day when it is planned.

You can configure this variable.

I could not define this in the manual, however Mx apropos RET org-agenda-skip- lists it, as well as other variables that offer similar types of filtering.