From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Harkins Subject: "Inheriting" timestamps Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:05:31 +0800 Message-ID: Reply-To: jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57815) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rzir2-0004Yg-1s for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:05:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rzir0-0005Zd-Qc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:05:36 -0500 Received: from mail-bk0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:39282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rzir0-0005ZY-IJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:05:34 -0500 Received: by bkty12 with SMTP id y12so6156881bkt.0 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:05:33 -0800 (PST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Not sure of the right terminology, but a reasonable description of what I'm hoping to do is to have some TODO items inherit their timestamp from a parent level. This is mainly for things that I need to do soon, but not on a specific day, and they might roll over to the next day (especially [#C] items). So I was thinking of something like: * Pending today <2012-02-21 Tue> ** TODO Something ** TODO Something else And then those items would appear for February 21 in the agenda day/week vi= ew. If I finish one of the tasks, I would move it under another heading (and its status would be DONE anyway, so it would disappear from the agenda). Then tomorrow, I would want to change the "Pending today" timestamp and the TODOs underneath would then show up for Wednesday in the agenda. If that isn't feasible, I'd be satisfied with an automatic way to change all the timestamps in subheadings underneath a given heading: put the Emacs cursor on the "Pending today" line, hit some keystroke, and all the dates change underneath. I have another question about Beamer too, but will put that in a separate e-mail. Thanks, James --=20 James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal."=A0 -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks