From: Yuri Niyazov <yuri.niyazov@gmail.com>
To: Subhan Michael Tindall <SubhanT@familycareinc.org>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to include time when generating timestamp for DEADLINE/SCHEDULE
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:37:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACbjG0unRh5ZExyt1Nc5rSM1meaUVw__o2YRPfag6oucQD50fA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACbjG0sx4u-NQ=YJ9PLJ0gUVuu7qeQjBTvK4+3NvxWgsN-UpJQ@mail.gmail.com>
PS It is clear that you can *both* select the correct date using
calendar, and *then* type in the time while still in the calendar
selector, right?
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Yuri Niyazov <yuri.niyazov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Subhan Michael Tindall
> <SubhanT@familycareinc.org> wrote:
>> Not really an acceptable answer. Having to use 2 different interface methods to fill in one time/date stamp value is confusing and cludgy. Plus, if you type in a full time/date stamp + time, you can still move around in the calendar, but it doesn't update the selected datestamp in yellow. Also confusing.
>
> Cludgy is in the eye of the beholder. I am hugely bothered by various
> inconsistencies in org-mode user interface (see my other posts to this
> list) but this one is very far down on the list. This is why:
>
> When I need to schedule a date, it is sufficiently close to today's
> date that it is usually 2-3 S+ARROWS keystrokes away from today, so
> the calendar with "today" selected as default is great.
>
> So, let's see how a time selector would work:
>
> When you bring up a time selector, it could by default show one of the
> following three options:
>
> 1) The current time
> 2) The last time you selected when you used the time selector
> 3) Some default configurable time like "noon"
>
> When I need to schedule a time for an event, the time that something
> needs to happen is usually not related to any times on that list, so
> using S+ARROWS would be less efficient than typing out the time, which
> is at most four keystrokes if its on the hour. (E.g. "10pm" ). Of
> course, this is only true if you are a touch-typist.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-13 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-12 19:17 How to include time when generating timestamp for DEADLINE/SCHEDULE Subhan Michael Tindall
2015-02-12 20:44 ` Yuri Niyazov
2015-02-12 20:46 ` Dominic Surano
2015-02-12 23:16 ` Subhan Michael Tindall
2015-02-13 0:36 ` Yuri Niyazov
2015-02-13 0:37 ` Yuri Niyazov [this message]
2015-02-13 13:14 ` Charles Millar
2015-02-13 13:25 ` Charles Millar
2015-02-14 20:09 ` Yuri Niyazov
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