From: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
To: Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about agenda
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:23:25 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7cdbe30810081053g3bb9b61cn5fdfc4417ebde75b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48ECED57.7020201@sift.info>
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:
> Manish wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:
>> > I have an org file which the agenda sees in which I put an outline item
>> > with notes from a meeting. The header for this item is as follows:
>> >
>> > * Tasks
>> > ...
>> > * * Meeting with XXXX
>> > SCHEDULED: <2008-10-06 Mon>
>> > ...
>> >
>> > What I was somewhat surprised to see was that this continues to roll
>> > down my agenda, e.g.:
>> >
>> > ....
>> > Wednesday 8 October 2008
>> > smite: Sched. 3x: Meeting with XXXXX
>> > ....
>> >
>> > I think this means that I don't really understand the meaning of
>> > SCHEDULED, nor do I understand how the agendas are composed. But I'm
>> > looking at the info manual now, and I'm not actually enlightened.
>> >
>> > Is there something I should do to tag something SCHEDULED like this so
>> > that it no longer appears in my agenda view as something still to be
>> > done? Is there a HAPPENED tag, or something like that?
>>
>> When something is SCHEDULED it continues to appear in agenda as long
>> as it is not marked DONE. You can do that (marking something DONE)
>> using C-c C-d in the Org file or using "t" from agenda view.
>>
>
> OK. But that does seem weird to me. Meetings seem like things that
> should be scheduled, but they are not TODO items, so they don't seem
> like the sort of thing that should get a TODO marker (which it what
> "DONE" is), and they don't seem like the sort of thing that should
> require an active dismissal.
Most of my meetings are of recurring nature so I never really thought
about this but I see what you mean.
>
> So it seems like "SCHEDULED" is just the Wrong Thing for stuff like my
> meeting. Is there any different flag I could use that would give me a
> single appearance in the Agenda?
I am sorry I am not aware of any such TODO keyword/tag. I was not
aware of an item appearing just once if SCHEDULED keyword was omitted
as suggested by Bernt. (He almost always teaches me something new
every time.)
-- Manish
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-08 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-08 14:56 Question about agenda Robert Goldman
2008-10-08 15:48 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-08 17:28 ` Robert Goldman
2008-10-08 16:22 ` Manish
2008-10-08 17:26 ` Robert Goldman
2008-10-08 17:53 ` Manish [this message]
2008-10-08 18:10 ` Eric Schulte
2008-10-08 18:50 ` Austin Frank
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