Schedule delayed to dos in iCal
Ryan Cuthbertson has written an AppleScript which offers an unusual solution to organising your “To Do” tasks in iCal.
Listing all your To Dos all the time is not always helpful. Scheduled To Dos could help you to be more productive as Ryan explains:
Don’t you wish you could make some iCal To Do items appear in iCal’s To Do list only after a certain date? For example, have you ever had an assignment due in four weeks’ time but which it was only possible or efficient to work on in the fortnight before? Currently iCal provides no real facility for this situation—you can’t enter a start date for a To Do.
Now you can. Using Ryan’s Event2ToDo AppleScript, you can create an event at the time you want the To Do to appear in your To Do list and fill in the details according to the instructions in its readme file.
The readme file also explains how to set the script to run 0 minutes before the event is due. Then you can forget about it and focus on the To Dos that need to get done right now.
Hey Presto, When the time is right, the script inserts your To Do into the list just when you need to focus on getting it done. Productive!
Event2ToDo is freeware and is available from Ryan’s web site 
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July 12th, 2006 at 1:07 am
If you’re into GTD, Kinkless GTD has much the same functionality. “Next Actions” get pushed onto the “To Do” list, but actions can be scheduled ahead of time, with start dates and due dates, and they don’t become “next actions” until many of the actions ahead of them are completed.
I wouldn’t suggest getting kGTD if you’re simply into having a delayed ToDo list. However, if you are trying to implement your own GTD with a delayed ToDo list, you might want to give kGTD a shot.