From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Detlef Steuer Subject: Re: Non-scheduled repeating tasks Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 15:56:07 +0200 Message-ID: <20140507155607.58a4f538@gaia> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41007) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi2Kk-0007fC-Op for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 09:56:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi2Kc-0007ig-En for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 09:56:30 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49150) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi2Kc-0007iV-9Z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 09:56:22 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi2KZ-0000jb-MJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 15:56:19 +0200 Received: from gaia.unibw-hamburg.de ([139.11.181.103]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 May 2014 15:56:19 +0200 Received: from detlef.steuer by gaia.unibw-hamburg.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 May 2014 15:56:19 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Am Mon, 5 May 2014 15:52:26 +0200 schrieb Albin Stjerna : > Hi, > > I've been thinking about how to integrate tasks which are to some > extent tracked elsewhere into my org-mode workflow, such as for > example "read N chapter of book A" or "watch K video lectures at X". > > I'd like a way to describe in org-mode that a task should be completed > a number of times, and then have org-mode let the task recur a number > of times, possibly with a cool-down period (but that's not really > necessary). The normal progress cookies % and / would preferrably be > used to indicate progress in the TODO headings themselves. > Not sure if I understand correctly, but did you look into org-habits? Sounds similar. http://orgmode.org/manual/Tracking-your-habits.html Detlef > 1. Has something like this been attempted by anyone else before? > 2. Which org-mode hooks would be a good place to start integrating > something that would both potentially block TODO transitions and have > to read/write properties and/or special drawers in org-mode? At first, > I thought that the problem could be trivially solved with the > org-blocker-hook, but I realised that it said it shouldn't update the > org buffers, and my function needs to in order to update the state for > blocked tasks (e.g. increment the counter). > > Thanks in advance! > Albin > >