Re: Re: Repeating tasks with a time period?

From: Chris McMahan <cmcmahan@one.net>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Repeating tasks with a time period?
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:22:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18717.35210.8000.580169@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B604D891-5BB6-40E8-9D35-A2852E7A8AD5@uva.nl>

It just keeps getting better!

Thanks Carsten!

- chris

Carsten Dominik writes:
>
>On Nov 13, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Chris McMahan wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>
>You can insert diary sexp entries directly as they are into Org files,
>and also into the <...> timestamp brackets.  Check the manual.
>
>http://orgmode.org/manual/Timestamps.html#Timestamps
>http://orgmode.org/manual/Weekly_002fdaily-agenda.html#Weekly_002fdaily-agenda
>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
>I think both package are too old and have too much legacy files in the  
>hands of many users to change this.  However, the link formats are  
>actually similar enough to make the code following links understand  
>both formats.
>
>- Carsten
>
>>
>>
>> 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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