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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Fletcher Charest <fletcher.charest@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Scheduled tasks: total time since last DONE
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:10:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874my1z98t.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGk6a7n0kr_4Xt3vYR=ygCTgY4MutnmTRVKhSkVzGgcQoHUk5Q@mail.gmail.com>	(Fletcher Charest's message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:55:55 +0200")

Hi Fletcher,

Fletcher Charest <fletcher.charest@gmail.com> writes:

> This way I could see it's been 7 days I didn't do it, and tasks would
> be better organized in the agenda. RIght now, a task that I have to
> do on a weekly basis never has a number greater than '6x', and even
> if it hasn't been done for months, it still appears on the bottom of
> the list in the agenda, with a small number.
>
> So is there a way to correct this?

Not really.

> How do you proceed?

I distinguish "repeating tasks" and "nagging tasks".

Cleaning the kitchen is typically a nagging task: not because some
people find it boring (no comment) but because you can't do the next
one before doing the previous one*... a repeating task is typically a
course at the uni: you can attend the next one without attending the
previous one, and in this case, the current behavior of Org makes
sense.

So, for nagging tasks, I simply don't use a repeater, this way the
task is always nagging me :)  When it's done, I reschedule it using
C-c C-s . S-<down> for the next week.  And voilà.

HTH,

* A joke of a good friend of mine:

« See you next time!
- Mhh.. will be difficult to see each others before this one. »

-- 
 Bastien

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-28 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-15 20:55 Scheduled tasks: total time since last DONE Fletcher Charest
2014-07-16 15:33 ` J. David Boyd
2014-07-28 14:10 ` Bastien [this message]
2014-07-28 15:45 ` Sebastien Vauban

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