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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: m.elston@advantest-ard.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recurring events/tasks
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:02:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tz7ccoxv.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49879359.90806@advantest-ard.com> (Mark Elston's message of "Mon\, 02 Feb 2009 16\:44\:09 -0800")

Mark Elston <m.elston@advantest-ard.com> writes:

> * Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote (on 2/2/2009 3:55 PM):
>> Firstly, I would like to congratulate Carsten and everyone else who
>> helped making org-mode this killer software it is. Kudos!
>>
>> So here's my doubt -- I was scheduling a task in my org gtd list and
>> felt the need for scheduled events that would show-up automatically
>> every n time (recurring). Is there a way to do that in org?
>>
> Here is what I have for two meetings that occur weekly:
>
> ** Weekly Review Meeting
>    <2009-01-26 Mon 13:30-14:30 +1w>
> ** OPR
>    <2009-01-20 Tue 11:00-12:00 +1w>
>
> Notice these are not "Scheduled" but have a date entry where the last
> element is "+1w".  This is used to put it on the agenda every week after
> the first date.  There are other such things you can do.  From the
> manual:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> A time stamp may contain a @emph{repeater interval}, indicating that it
> applies not only on the given date, but again and again after a certain
> interval of N days (d), weeks (w), months(m), or years(y).  The
> following will show up in the agenda every Wednesday:
>
> @example
> * Pick up Sam at school <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
> @end example
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here's the org mode manual page about repeated tasks

http://orgmode.org/manual/Repeated-tasks.html#Repeated-tasks

You can use repeaters like +1w, ++1w, .+1w, etc

-Bernt

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-03  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-02 23:55 Recurring events/tasks Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-02-03  0:44 ` Mark Elston
2009-02-03  1:02   ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2009-02-03 15:07     ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa

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