From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Welle Subject: Re: Temporary cancelling recurring tasks Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:14:31 +0100 Message-ID: <8760l16eg8.fsf@luisa.c0t0d0s0.de> References: <87o9yu5cll.fsf@luisa.c0t0d0s0.de> <874m0l7ukf.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59634) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWll5-0002ui-5D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:14:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWll0-0006Vz-Gd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:14:43 -0500 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:56210) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWll0-0006T9-5y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:14:38 -0500 Received: from stella.c0t0d0s0.de ([141.99.200.222]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Man6U-1clh2j2Qf4-00KRcl for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:14:31 +0100 Received: from Stella (stella.c0t0d0s0.de [192.168.42.1]) by stella.c0t0d0s0.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BACCC45FC for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:14:31 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <874m0l7ukf.fsf@gmail.com> (Nick Dokos's message of "Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:41:04 -0500") 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 Hello, Nick Dokos writes: > 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? that means that I need to know in advance when I'm back. Regards hmw