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From: Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com>
To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Repeating tasks on specific days of the week
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:00:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTiktQ937emL4OMdNZOkdBTsviyYy+yZ5g672XtLP@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5gxy0ja.fsf@archdesk.localdomain>

Matt,

Thanks for confirming that separate repeating tasks is the best solution.

Best,
Jeff

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
> Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> I was wondering how to create repeating tasks for, say, Tuesday and
>> Thursday at noon. I found this on stack overflow: http://cl.ly/2K8c
>>
>> Is that really the best answer? Can this not be accomplished with
>> symbolic expressions?
>>
>> Seems like a great feature for academics and students. Surely, I'm
>> ignorant, and someone has a better solution than creating multiple
>> repeating tasks?
>
> AFAIK, one cannot use complex symbolic expressions with repeating tasks;
> the moment a headline with such an expression is marked done, it is
> removed from the agenda. The only solution, at the moment, is to create
> different entries for each desired day of the week:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> * Tuesday task
>  SCHEDULED: <2010-09-14 Tue +1w>
>
> * Thursday task
>  SCHEDULED: <2010-09-16 Thu +1w>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Best,
> Matt
>



-- 
Jeffrey Horn
PhD Student in Economics
George Mason University

(704) 271-4797
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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-15  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-10  3:54 Repeating tasks on specific days of the week Jeff Horn
2010-09-13 18:13 ` Matt Lundin
2010-09-15  5:00   ` Jeff Horn [this message]
2010-09-15  7:34     ` Julien Fantin
2010-09-15 20:00       ` Jeff Horn

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