Thanks Christopher, the latter option seems to accomplish what I require though not very elegant With Regards, Sagar On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Christopher Witte wrote: > Hi Sagar, > > I think you either want a repeating task see > http://orgmode.org/manual/Repeated-tasks.html > > or to use org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift see > http://orgmode.org/manual/Structure-editing.html#Structure-editing > > I think repeated tasks repeat for ever, so from your description > org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift might be better. > > I hope that helps, > Chris. > > On 26 January 2015 at 14:13, Sagar Shankar wrote: > >> Hi all, been using Org-Mode for just over a month now and have stumbled >> into something that I cannot still figure out how to implement. >> >> I want to set aside a fixed amount of time each day (say 2 hours) at a >> specific time(18-00-20:00 say) to work on a specific task. I want this task >> to repeat for 7 days and for state changes (from TODO to DONE) to be >> tracked for those 7 days. The latter while ideal, is also optional, as in a >> base case, I'd be happy to just get the task automatically marked TODO 7 >> times in my Agenda till the 7 days are over. >> >> Right now, I've tried using the following syntax: >> >> ** TODO Work on XYZ >> SCHEDULED: <2015-01-21 Wed 20:30-21:30>-- <2015-01-28 Wed 20:30-21:30> >> >> When I mark this as complete for today, all the other occurrences are >> also marked as DONE, which I do not want. Another confusing factor is that >> instead of counting 7 occurrences of this task, Org counts it as 8 (which >> is another thing I'd love to get explained) >> >> I know tracking repeated tasks is best suited for Org-Habits but I cannot >> find anywhere in the documentation for that module, a parameter that allows >> me to track habits for only 7 times or 8 times say, and for that habit to >> be inserted into the agenda at a specific time only. >> >> Would really appreciate some advice! >> >> Thanks for your time, >> Sagar >> > >