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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Scheduling of 2-day events
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:45:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5rvsb8f.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <he1mp0$pul$1@ger.gmane.org> (Markus Heller's message of "Wed\, 18 Nov 2009 12\:51\:43 -0800")

Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com> writes:

> Bernt Hansen wrote:
>> Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> subject says it all.  Is this the appropriate way of doing scheduling
>>> a 2-day event (couldn't find an example in the manual):
>>>
>>> * TODO Career/Training/Courses
>>> ** TODO Project Management Workshop
>>>    SCHEDULED: <2009-11-19 Thu 9:00-16:30>--<2009-11-20 Fri 9:00-16:30>
>>>
>>>
>>> The agenda out put (C-c a a) looks like this:
>>>
>>> Thursday   19 November 2009
>>>   ABC:       9:00-16:30 Scheduled:  TODO Project Management Workshop
>>>   ABC:       9:00-16:30 (1/2):  TODO Project Management Workshop
>>> Friday     20 November 2009
>>>   ABC:      (2/2):  TODO Project Management Workshop
>>
>> I would just drop the SCHEDULED: part
>>
>> ** TODO Project Management Workshop
>>    <2009-11-19 Thu 9:00-16:30>--<2009-11-20 Fri 9:00-16:30>
>>
>> so you don't get a duplicate entry.  I'd also drop the TODO since it's
>> scheduled for a block of time and when the time is gone it's done -
>> whether you mark it DONE or not.
>
>
> Thanks for your reply, Bernt.
>
> The TODO changes to STARTED when I clock this task in, which I do when
> I'm working on my preparation.  I could have a sub-task for
> preparation and clock this, but in the end, this doesn't really matter
> too much to me.

Yes mine does too - but then I just move it back to no TODO keyword and
keep the clock running.

I don't normally clock in 'events', I clock in todo tasks - so if
there's something to do to prepare for the event I would normally stick
that in another task and clock that instead.

-Bernt

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-18 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-18 19:24 Scheduling of 2-day events Markus Heller
2009-11-18 20:11 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-11-18 20:51   ` Markus Heller
2009-11-18 22:45     ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2009-11-18 23:00       ` Markus Heller
2009-11-19 13:26         ` Bernt Hansen
2009-11-23 19:07           ` Markus Heller
2009-11-23 20:37           ` Łukasz Stelmach

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