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 08:25:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54DDFB47.50506@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54DDF8BF.3040104@verizon.net>
On 02/13/2015 08:14 AM, Charles Millar wrote:
>
> 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
Forgot to mention that with the deadline I also might enter a lead time
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-13 13:24 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
2015-02-13 13:25 ` Charles Millar [this message]
2015-02-14 20:09 ` Yuri Niyazov
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