From: Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org-mode is not able to manage complex calendar events
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:32:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2011-06-21T14-18-15@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8739j4xvxh.fsf@ucl.ac.uk
* Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
>
>> * Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> you can clone with time shift whole trees, etc.
>>
>> Oh, I have to look up that clone thing. This is new to me. Do you
>> happen to have an URL for this feature by instance?
>
> ,----[ org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift ]
>| ...
> `----
Wow, this is *great* news to me, thanks!
Although this is mentioned in chapter 2 of the Org-mode manual, I
strongly urge to mention this in section 8.3.2 «Repeated tasks»[1]
too!
Where can I place this wish?
> Sure; elisp is non-trivial. Point taken!
Thanks :-) The resulting problem is that things I can only express
using sexp is non-trivial too.
I'd be glad to see something like this:
* Event <2011-06-21 Tue +1w> <-2011-06-28 Tue>
... which lets me express an exception (each tuesday starting with
today but not next week) in an easy to use way.
> If there's any complaint one might have about org, is that it can
> be used for so many different tasks (calendar, task management,
> document preparation, etc.) that it can be overwhelming.
Agree. But I'd consider the calendar use-case as the worst supported
usecase in this list. I have seen the talks of Carsten Dominik and
AFAIR he clearly says that Org-mode's focus is task oriented and not
calendar oriented.
> Think of one of those very large swiss army knives where
> you can spend minutes just trying to find the right "blade" ;-). But
> I'm not complaining! :->
:-) Me too *g*
> In any case, the org manual, the org web site and Worg, not to mention
> this mailing list, provide a wealth of information and use cases.
I love the documentation of Org-mode - it's pretty good!
>> For ELISP-hackers out there: is this hard to do? A method which
>> can be called «generate a series of Org-mode time stamps starting
>> with $THIS_TIMESTAMP_CONTAINING_REPEATS up to $THIS date».
>>
>> I could think of generating such a series of <2011-06-22 Wed>
>> <2011-06-29 Wed> ... just to be able to see all occurrences of an
>> event and delete one specific event in between if necessary. This
>> would ease exceptions for «ordinary» users like me.
>
> See above; I use org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift for setting up, for
> instance, the lectures I have to give in a teaching term. I set up the
> initial lectures for each relevant day in the week and then clone the
> subtrees, removing any exceptions (reading/study weeks, say) afterwards.
Sure, org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift is very cool indeed. But it
goes in this direction:
* Event <2011-06-21 Tue>
* Event <2011-06-28 Tue>
* Event <2011-07-05 Tue>
* Event <2011-07-12 Tue +1w>
But I aim in a slightly different direction:
* Event
<2011-06-21 Tue>
<2011-06-28 Tue>: additional note
<2011-07-05 Tue>
<2011-07-12 Tue +1w>
The latter one works pretty well and keeps my Org-file more clear.
So org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift is helping a lot for the upper
method but my personal preference would be the second example.
Is there already any solution to this too?
1. http://orgmode.org/org.html#Repeated-tasks
--
Karl Voit
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-21 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-18 2:09 org and microsoft exchange Skip Collins
2011-06-20 7:52 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-06-20 11:53 ` Holger Wenzel
2011-06-20 12:01 ` Skip Collins
2011-06-20 14:13 ` Jonathan Arkell
2011-06-26 13:35 ` Matthieu Lemerre
2011-06-27 17:14 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-06-27 19:13 ` Matthieu Lemerre
2011-06-28 23:16 ` Bastien
2011-07-07 19:13 ` Matthieu Lemerre
2011-07-08 9:26 ` Bastien
2011-06-29 16:44 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-07-07 19:21 ` Matthieu Lemerre
2011-07-08 9:02 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-07-08 22:14 ` Achim Gratz
2011-06-20 11:53 ` Org-mode is not able to manage complex calendar events (was: org and microsoft exchange) Karl Voit
2011-06-20 14:38 ` Org-mode is not able to manage complex calendar events Eric S Fraga
2011-06-20 15:51 ` Karl Voit
2011-06-20 17:19 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-06-21 12:32 ` Karl Voit [this message]
2011-06-21 12:50 ` Rémi Vanicat
2011-06-21 16:46 ` Karl Voit
2011-06-21 15:12 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-06-21 17:24 ` Karl Voit
2011-06-28 9:36 ` Bastien
2011-06-28 12:19 ` How to place a feature wish (was: Org-mode is not able to manage complex calendar events) Karl Voit
2011-06-20 18:48 ` Org-mode is not able to manage complex calendar events Memnon Anon
2011-07-01 15:18 ` Bastien
2011-07-01 16:25 ` Karl Voit
2011-07-02 9:21 ` Bastien
2011-07-02 10:20 ` Karl Voit
2011-06-20 14:42 ` org and microsoft exchange Philipp Haselwarter
2011-06-20 15:04 ` Nick Dokos
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