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From: Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Feature request] Repeatable tasks workday
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:08:30 +0000
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	Marklund's message of "Fri, 8 Mar 2019 13:05:29 +0100")
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On Friday,  8 Mar 2019 at 13:05, Emil Marklund wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Some[1][2][3] have been asking for a method to create repeatable tasks
> that repeats on workdays (Monday to Friday). As far as I can tell, there
> is no "native support" for this in org-mode.=C2=A0 It would be neat if one
> could specify repeatable tasks with a simple syntax, such as "+1wd" for
> defining deadlines on tasks that should be repeated for each workday.

This is non-trivial, especially as the concept of a work day is not the
same around the world.

The easiest solution, which I use, is to have weekly repeated tasks for
each "work day"; i.e. 5 different tasks, one for Monday, one for
Tuesday, etc.

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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.2-249-g51444a