From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: Repeating tasks with a time period? Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:12:35 -0500 Message-ID: <878wrn1luk.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> References: <5641883d0811131051t61b15b5brf62111604aecc549@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hcU-00022R-NQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:12:46 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hcR-00021p-99 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:12:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58910 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hcQ-00021l-T6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:12:42 -0500 Received: from mho-02-bos.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.179]:56034) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0hcQ-0003eq-Ld for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:12:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <5641883d0811131051t61b15b5brf62111604aecc549@mail.gmail.com> (Oliver Charles's message of "Thu\, 13 Nov 2008 18\:51\:06 +0000") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Oliver Charles Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org "Oliver Charles" writes: > I'm starting to use org-mode more and more at the moment, and want to > integrate my university schedule into my agenda, instead of > maintaining 2 separate calendars. > > Here's an real-world example of what I'd like to do, I'm not sure it's > possible with org-mode though... > > I have a CSC243 practical every Tuesday, at 1100-1300. It repeats > weekly, starting on 28/10/2008 and the last one is on 16/12/2008. I > can get it repeating weekly from this date with just a start time, but > cannot work out how to repeat the time region. ,----[ university.org ] | * Classes | ** TODO CSC243 Practical | SCHEDULED: <2008-10-28 Tue 11:00-13:00 +1w> | `---- > > Also, is there anyway to stop the repeating event when it gets to that > date? If that's not possible, I don't mind having to go in and > manually remove the event - most changes happen at the end of a term > anyawy. No, repeating items go on forever (as far as I know) I normally deal with this with a second deadline item to kill the task. Something like this: ,----[ university.org ] | * Classes | ** TODO CSC243 Practical | SCHEDULED: <2008-10-28 Tue 11:00-13:00 +1w> | *** TODO Task ends | DEADLINE: <2008-12-16 Tue -7d> | `---- and then I just remove the +1w from the CSC243 task and mark it and the deadline task as done. I would also recommend putting these tasks in a separate org file and just adding it to your agenda with C-c [. Then it's easy to drop it from the agenda in the future with C-c ]. HTH, Bernt