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From: Chris Gray <chrismgray@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The recurring task pattern
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:57:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <863aahy9ro.fsf@portan.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.uuxxis2eetmi9u@gorontha.conoptica.local

Ivan Nedrehagen wrote:

> Hi everyone, I have a pattern that repeats itself in org-mode and I am
> wondering if anyone have any solutions to it.

> I have some tasks that must be done each week, it does not matter when
> I complete them, but they must be done before end of the week. And
> when the  next week comes the task should be repeated.

> Now I have an TODO item on it and I flip it back and forth from TODO
> to DONE, but it requires me to remember that I have completed the
> task, and  requires me to put it back to TODO next week. This is not
> working very  well.

> What I would like:
> At the beginning of each week the task sets itself to TODO.
> When I complete it, it logs the state change (only for this state, I
> do not want state change logging on all).
> A reminder that I did not complete it last week would be nice, but I
> expect that to be too much to ask for.

You can add a deadline that repeats every week for the task.  

** TODO Do weekly task
   DEADLINE: <2009-06-03 Wed +1w> 

Cheers,
Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-03  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-03  8:50 The recurring task pattern Ivan Nedrehagen
2009-06-03  8:57 ` Chris Gray [this message]
2009-06-03  9:24   ` Mikael Fornius
2009-06-04 10:50   ` Ivan Nedrehagen
2009-06-05  1:40     ` Matthew Lundin

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