From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris McMahan Subject: Re: Repeating tasks with a time period? Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:24:57 -0500 Message-ID: <18716.32521.523000.410225@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <5641883d0811131051t61b15b5brf62111604aecc549@mail.gmail.com> <878wrn1luk.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hoT-0005Xp-CA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:25:09 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hoS-0005Wy-7y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:25:08 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59668 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hoR-0005Wu-5v for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:25:07 -0500 Received: from mail1.panix.com ([166.84.1.72]:57355) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0hoQ-0005Nd-Uf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:25:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <878wrn1luk.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Bernt Hansen Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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" 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 > > >_______________________________________________ >Emacs-orgmode mailing list >Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode -- ================================ Chris McMahan | cmcmahan@one.net ================================