From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: Cyclic timestamps for SCHEDULED and DEADLINE Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 06:01:02 +0200 Message-ID: <76d7da0b2916d0aaba7f78663ecca89d@gmail.com> References: <1146241433.3697.14.camel@elrond.zur.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd1rv-00018I-PX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 05:17:31 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd1ru-00015v-3f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 05:17:31 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd1rt-00015i-Ur for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 05:17:29 -0400 Received: from [66.249.92.170] (helo=ug-out-1314.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fd1sh-0003j6-Nt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 05:18:19 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id h2so1301564ugf for ; Mon, 08 May 2006 02:17:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1146241433.3697.14.camel@elrond.zur.novell.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Christian Egli Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Dieter Grollmann On Apr 28, 2006, at 18:23, Christian Egli wrote: >> >> Yes I understand. A very basic problem with cyclic scheduling is that >> if you don't mark the entry DONE, then you can get many of those tasks >> in your agenda. > > But AFAIK this is only a problem because the scheduled tasks show up in > the "all currently open items" section. If scheduled items would no > longer show up there then this problem would not exist, wouldn't it? No, this is unrelated. If you schedule an item for the 1st of May, and the same item again for the first of June, then from the first of June you will have two entries in your agenda for today, reminding you that you did not finish two things scheduled previously and not done yet. Another problem is how to mark things DONE and still reschedule them next time. Imagine we had something like *** TODO Buy fresh milk SCHEDULED: <*-*-01> Lets say I get this entry in May and I finish it and mark it DONE. In the Org-mode way, this means that I have to change TODO to DONE: *** DONE Buy fresh milk SCHEDULED: <*-*-01> However, now it look like this thing is DONE and should never be scheduled again. Hmmm, this would really require a new piece of syntax..... - Carsten -- Carsten Dominik Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 403 NL-1098SJ Amsterdam phone: +31 20 525 7477