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From: Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about agenda
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:28:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48ECEDB2.60109@sift.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87prmbkrzs.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>

Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> writes:
> 
>> I have an org file which the agenda sees in which I put an outline item
>> with notes from a meeting.  The header for this item is as follows:
>>
>> * Tasks
>> ...
>> * * Meeting with XXXX
>>   SCHEDULED: <2008-10-06 Mon>
>> ...
>>
>> What I was somewhat surprised to see was that this continues to roll
>> down my agenda, e.g.:
>>
>> ....
>> Wednesday   8 October 2008
>>   smite:      Sched. 3x:  Meeting with XXXXX
>> ....
>>
>> I think this means that I don't really understand the meaning of
>> SCHEDULED, nor do I understand how the agendas are composed.  But I'm
>> looking at the info manual now, and I'm not actually enlightened.
>>
>> Is there something I should do to tag something SCHEDULED like this so
>> that it no longer appears in my agenda view as something still to be
>> done?  Is there a HAPPENED tag, or something like that?
>>
>> Or, is it the case that I should only use SCHEDULED with todo items?
>>
>> Any guidance much appreciated.
>>
> 
> I make these things into TODO items so it's
> 
> ** TODO Meeting with XXXX
> 
> and when you mark it DONE it stops showing up on the agenda.  If you
> don't do it when scheduled it starts carrying forward in the agenda.
> 
> Alternatively you can just use a date without SCHEDULED: and it'll be
> only at the specific time you specify.
> 
> I prefer using TODO/DONE so it's obvious when things are complete and I
> can archive them later without having to look at the date to see if it's
> in the future/past.
> 
> -Bernt

Thanks, that seems like the answer for me --- just put a date stamp on
the item.

Best,
r

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-08 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-08 14:56 Question about agenda Robert Goldman
2008-10-08 15:48 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-08 17:28   ` Robert Goldman [this message]
2008-10-08 16:22 ` Manish
2008-10-08 17:26   ` Robert Goldman
2008-10-08 17:53     ` Manish
2008-10-08 18:10       ` Eric Schulte
2008-10-08 18:50 ` Austin Frank

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