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From: Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to include time when generating timestamp for DEADLINE/SCHEDULE
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 08:14:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54DDF8BF.3040104@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACbjG0unRh5ZExyt1Nc5rSM1meaUVw__o2YRPfag6oucQD50fA@mail.gmail.com>


On 02/12/2015 07:37 PM, Yuri Niyazov wrote:
> PS It is clear that you can *both* select the correct date using
> calendar, and *then* type in the time while still in the calendar
> selector, right?
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Yuri Niyazov <yuri.niyazov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Subhan Michael Tindall
>> <SubhanT@familycareinc.org> wrote:
>>> Not really an acceptable answer. Having to use 2 different interface methods to fill in one time/date stamp value is confusing and cludgy. Plus, if you type in a full time/date stamp + time, you can still move around in the calendar, but it doesn't update the selected datestamp in yellow.  Also confusing.
>> Cludgy is in the eye of the beholder. I am hugely bothered by various
>> inconsistencies in org-mode user interface (see my other posts to this
>> list) but this one is very far down on the list. This is why:
>>
>> When I need to schedule a date, it is sufficiently close to today's
>> date that it is usually 2-3 S+ARROWS keystrokes away from today, so
>> the calendar with "today" selected as default is great.
>>
>> So, let's see how a time selector would work:
>>
>> When you bring up a time selector, it could by default show one of the
>> following three options:
>>
>> 1) The current time
>> 2) The last time you selected when you used the time selector
>> 3) Some default configurable time like "noon"
>>
>> When I need to schedule a time for an event, the time that something
>> needs to happen is usually not related to any times on that list, so
>> using S+ARROWS would be less efficient than typing out the time, which
>> is at most four keystrokes if its on the hour. (E.g. "10pm" ). Of
>> course, this is only true if you are a touch-typist.
>>

Why bother with the arrow keys at all? I have a capture template for 
appointments and deadlines which requests date and time. Calendar is 
called. Rather than arrow keys I type the date<space>time (optional 
duration) and then enter - e.g. call the template, then "2/28 13:30 (and 
then enter the rest of template requests such as 'What has to be done""

Charlie Millar

Charlie Millar

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-13 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-12 19:17 How to include time when generating timestamp for DEADLINE/SCHEDULE Subhan Michael Tindall
2015-02-12 20:44 ` Yuri Niyazov
2015-02-12 20:46 ` Dominic Surano
2015-02-12 23:16   ` Subhan Michael Tindall
2015-02-13  0:36     ` Yuri Niyazov
2015-02-13  0:37       ` Yuri Niyazov
2015-02-13 13:14         ` Charles Millar [this message]
2015-02-13 13:25           ` Charles Millar
2015-02-14 20:09             ` Yuri Niyazov

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