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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: "Andrew M. Nuxoll" <nuxoll@up.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to "snooze" a repeating item
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:58:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ht6cndx.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B1599F6.9080302@up.edu> (Andrew M. Nuxoll's message of "Tue\, 01 Dec 2009 14\:34\:30 -0800")

"Andrew M. Nuxoll" <nuxoll@up.edu> writes:

> I've been using org-mode for four months now and I just love it.  So I
> think I'm post-newb but still very amateur.
>
> Anyway, my to-do list has several repeating scheduled items like this
> contrived example:
>
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
>      SCHEDULED: <2009-12-08 Tue +1w>
>
> Or, in English, I meet with Sarah for lunch once a week on Tuesdays.
>
> Now, let's say that Sarah calls on Monday afternoon and says, "Can we
> do lunch on Wednesday this week?" and I say "Sure thing."
>
> Now I have a problem.  I could shift the date to Wednesday like this:
>
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
>      SCHEDULED: <2009-12-09 Wed +1w>
>
> But that will mean that the following week it will *still* be
> scheduled for Wednesdays (specifically Dec 16 instead of Dec 15).  I
> miss my regular lunch date with Sarah and catch ire for standing her
> up.
>
> How do I handle situations like this? 
>
> It seems like I either need a time stamp "stack" or I need a temporary
> flag that "self destructs" after a prescribed time.
>
> :AMN:

I would probably clone the entry once and set it for Wednesday and let
the weekly repeater continue for next Tuesday.

HTH,
Bernt

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-01 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <DICKENSyt3cew8k69RK00000b40@dickens.campus.up.edu>
2009-12-01 22:34 ` How to "snooze" a repeating item Andrew M. Nuxoll
2009-12-01 22:58   ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2009-12-02  1:09     ` Andrew M. Nuxoll
2009-12-01 23:09   ` Nick Dokos
2009-12-02  0:04     ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2010-01-17 15:26   ` Luke Amdor
2010-01-17 16:24     ` Nuxoll, Andrew

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