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From: Brady Trainor <algebrat@uw.edu>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org-mode Habit with Varying Description
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:03:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9yyy0dl.fsf@uw.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAMaREXYajGgfuX69Z44+NzLW7tBi6PAMdRHTjobqBcndR8My=Q@mail.gmail.com

Daya Atapattu <atapattud@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a way to create a habit that picks-up the description from a
> list?
>
> I like to schedule studying a book: It would be scheduled as "Read
> pages 100-125." Then the next day it should read "Read pages 126-150."
> The description of the habit varies; org-mode picks that up
> sequentially from a list.
>
> Is that possible?
>
> Regards,
>
> - Daya


I was scheduling all my TODOs for the day and using agenda view to clock my progress through them. But I've been skimming once again through org-mode users' descriptions of how they use org-mode, and one mentioned only to use scheduling for things like appointments. 

So my advice will step around your use of habits, although I do this without recently haing adopted org-habits into my workflow, so maybe I am missing something. 

So instead of scheduling, I would have you tag these headlines, or similarly set them under a tree with a CATEGORY, and simly toggle their TODO state as you want to work on them. Here is an example of a custom-command: 

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
      '(("B" "Books"
         ((tags-todo "-nofilter"))
         ((org-agenda-category-filter-preset '("+read"))
          ;; or
          ;; (org-agenda-tags-filter-preset '("+read"))
        ))
#+END_SRC

So if you think you will keep the reading notes in a few concentrated places, then CATEGORY should do, whereas if you think you would have related headlines strewn about, the tag-filter may be better. 

Here is an example org-file: 

#+BEGIN_SRC org

#+TODO: TODO(t) NEXT | DONE
#+TAGS: read(r) other

* book reading
:PROPERTIES:
:CATEGORY: read
:VISIBILITY: children
:END:
** DONE pages 100-125                 :read:
** NEXT pages 125-150                 :read:
** TODO pages 150-175                 :read:

#+END_SRC

If you'd like to experiment with an additional agenda view for clocking, try

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(agenda ""
        (org-agenda-span 'day)
        (org-agenda-log-mode-items '(closed clock state))
        (org-agenda-start-with-log-mode t)
        (org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done t))
#+END_SRC

You may want to tweak so that you can get a view of total clocked or just a view of those days where you read. It's not org-habits, but it could still potentially show you your progress in way that can motivate. 

--
Brady

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-20 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-20 14:33 Org-mode Habit with Varying Description Daya Atapattu
2014-10-20 14:52 ` Bastien
2014-10-20 15:46   ` Daya Atapattu
2014-10-20 16:02 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2014-10-20 17:37 ` Pete Ley
2014-10-21  0:34   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-21 12:21     ` Samuel Loury
2014-10-21 16:29       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-24  3:42         ` Pete Ley
2014-10-26 15:51           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-28 13:28             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-10-28 13:41               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-28 15:01               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-28 16:22                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-10-28 16:38                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-29 20:48                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-10-20 19:13 ` Melleus
2014-10-20 20:03 ` Brady Trainor [this message]
2014-10-21 15:37 ` Michael Brand

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