From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Temporary cancelling recurring tasks Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:41:04 -0500 Message-ID: <874m0l7ukf.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87o9yu5cll.fsf@luisa.c0t0d0s0.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51287) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWlFO-0003N9-3X for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:42:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWlFJ-0005HE-8Z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:41:58 -0500 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51982 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWlFJ-0005H9-1b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:41:53 -0500 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cWlEh-0001Ya-Us for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:41:15 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Michael Welle writes: > Hello, > > I want to temporary cancel recurring tasks. Let's say I have tasks, that > only make sense when I'm in my office. Now I'm away for a few months. > The tasks would clutter my agenda. I could comment them, archive them or > use org-cancel-repeater and set the task's state to DONE. But all that > makes it hard to restore the previous state when I'm back in my office. > > I think, the clean solution is to set the state of the task to CANCELLED > or STOPPED or something like that, to deactivate the recurring task. > When I activate the task again, the scheduled date and the repeater > should be restored. To achieve that, I tried the following: > Can't you just reschedule them for after you get back? -- Nick