From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: "Andrew M. Nuxoll" <nuxoll@up.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to "snooze" a repeating item
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:09:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9151.1259708957@alphaville.usa.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from "Andrew M. Nuxoll" <nuxoll@up.edu> of "Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:34:30 PST." <4B1599F6.9080302@up.edu>
Andrew M. Nuxoll <nuxoll@up.edu> wrote:
> I've been using org-mode for four months now and I just love it. So I
> think I'm post-newb but still very amateur.
>
> Anyway, my to-do list has several repeating scheduled items like this
> contrived example:
>
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
> SCHEDULED: <2009-12-08 Tue +1w>
>
> Or, in English, I meet with Sarah for lunch once a week on Tuesdays.
>
> Now, let's say that Sarah calls on Monday afternoon and says, "Can we do
> lunch on Wednesday this week?" and I say "Sure thing."
>
> Now I have a problem. I could shift the date to Wednesday like this:
>
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
> SCHEDULED: <2009-12-09 Wed +1w>
>
> But that will mean that the following week it will *still* be scheduled
> for Wednesdays (specifically Dec 16 instead of Dec 15). I miss my
> regular lunch date with Sarah and catch ire for standing her up.
>
> How do I handle situations like this?
>
> It seems like I either need a time stamp "stack" or I need a temporary
> flag that "self destructs" after a prescribed time.
>
> :AMN:
>
If you are looking for an exclusively org solution, this won't satisfy.
But here's how I would do it:
o go to the agenda, move to the item and press <RET> to visit it.
o copy/paste the subtree (C-c C-x M-w and C-c C-x C-y).
o In one copy, advance the date by a week (to skip tomorrow's reminder).
o In the other, advance the date to Wed and delete the repeater.
HTH,
Nick
PS. To paraphrase Bernt: "Repeat after me: It's just text."
Every time I start thinking of all kinds of Rube-Goldbergesque
solutions to simple problems, I whack myself on the head with
Bernt's reminder and my sanity is restored !-)
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2009-12-01 22:34 ` How to "snooze" a repeating item Andrew M. Nuxoll
2009-12-01 22:58 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-12-02 1:09 ` Andrew M. Nuxoll
2009-12-01 23:09 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2009-12-02 0:04 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2010-01-17 15:26 ` Luke Amdor
2010-01-17 16:24 ` Nuxoll, Andrew
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