Re: Repeating tasks with a time period?

From: Chris McMahan <cmcmahan@one.net>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Repeating tasks with a time period?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:24:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18716.32521.523000.410225@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wrn1luk.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>

Just a thought....

Calendar/Diary already has a very sophisticated mechanism for
repeating appointments, blocks of time and such.

Has any thought been given to using this same mechanism, and basically
making the org files almost like super calendar files that can also
handle tasks, outlining and such?

In addition, the remember code for items such as vm mail, gnus and
such could be standardized to generate links that work with both
planner and org-mode. That way, all of the work of generating links
will be with the remember package, and not rewritten for every
implementation that uses them.

Just some random musings.

- Chris

Bernt Hansen writes:
>"Oliver Charles" <oliver.g.charles@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm starting to use org-mode more and more at the moment, and want to
>> integrate my university schedule into my agenda, instead of
>> maintaining 2 separate calendars.
>>
>> Here's an real-world example of what I'd like to do, I'm not sure it's
>> possible with org-mode though...
>>
>> I have a CSC243 practical every Tuesday, at 1100-1300. It repeats
>> weekly, starting on 28/10/2008 and the last one is on 16/12/2008. I
>> can get it repeating weekly from this date with just a start time, but
>> cannot work out how to repeat the time region.
>
>,----[ university.org ]
>| * Classes
>| ** TODO CSC243 Practical
>|    SCHEDULED: <2008-10-28 Tue 11:00-13:00 +1w> 
>| 
>`----
>
>>
>> Also, is there anyway to stop the repeating event when it gets to that
>> date? If that's not possible, I don't mind having to go in and
>> manually remove the event - most changes happen at the end of a term
>> anyawy.
>
>No, repeating items go on forever (as far as I know)
>
>I normally deal with this with a second deadline item to kill the task.
>Something like this:
>
>,----[ university.org ]
>| * Classes
>| ** TODO CSC243 Practical
>|    SCHEDULED: <2008-10-28 Tue 11:00-13:00 +1w> 
>| *** TODO Task ends
>|     DEADLINE: <2008-12-16 Tue -7d>
>| 
>`----
>
>and then I just remove the +1w from the CSC243 task and mark it and the
>deadline task as done.
>
>I would also recommend putting these tasks in a separate org file and
>just adding it to your agenda with C-c [.  Then it's easy to drop it
>from the agenda in the future with C-c ].
>
>HTH,
>Bernt
>
>
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