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From: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-mode Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Added support for "habit tracking"
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:11:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2oco2f0rz.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A40A66B-04FB-4D86-A705-BB5FA18D148F@gmail.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:48:32 -0400")

John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:

> On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Matt Lundin wrote:
>
>> 1. The syntax for defining habits seems fairly complex. One must add a
>> repeating scheduled timestamp, a repeating deadline timestamp and a
>> property. I was wondering if there could be anyway to automate
>> creating
>> new habits---e.g., a dialog that asks for the appropriate time spans.
>> (My own preference would be to use a new timestamp notation to
>> indicate
>> habits. I'm not sure what this would look like. Perhaps something like
>> this: SCHEDULED: <2009-10-17 Sat !+2+2> --- where the first number is
>> the repeating span and the second is the "grace period". Of course, I
>> have no idea whether this is possible.)
>
> I agree with you here, and think that a more comprehensive SCHEDULED
> syntax might be just the fix.  I'll look into this.  Perhaps using a
> syntax like "!+2/2".

Thanks. And, of course, if a new timestamp syntax proves too
complicated, I'm more than happy to use the current implementation. :)

>
>> 3. The faces for the graph are difficult to read against dark
>> backgrounds. (See attached image.)
>
> I'll fix this too.
>
>> 4. I currently use the tag :HABIT: to track habits. This allows for
>> easy
>> filtering in the agenda. I'm wondering whether there might be an
>> option
>> to designate habits with a user-defined tag rather than the STYLE
>> property. The advantage would be much faster agenda searches for
>> habits.
>
> You can search for STYLE="habit".  I myself use contextual tags on the
> habits, because some of them aren't appropriate in other location, and
> I wouldn't want to see ":HABIT:" in the right-hand column for every
> one.
>
> Also, note that you can press K now to filter habits in and out of the
> agenda view.  They are also by default restricted to only appearing in
> todays' agenda view.

I see. That works very nicely. Sorry I missed it the first time through
the documentation. This eliminates one of the main reason I had for
switching to a tag-based implementation.

Thanks again! I look forward to playing with this some more.

Matt

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-20 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-19  8:26 Added support for "habit tracking" John Wiegley
2009-10-19  8:28 ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 14:02 ` Matt Lundin
2009-10-20 15:29   ` Carsten Dominik
2009-10-20 15:56     ` Matthew Lundin
2009-10-20 16:55     ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 17:13       ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-20 17:19         ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 18:20           ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-20 16:48   ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 17:11     ` Matthew Lundin [this message]
2009-10-20 18:30     ` Samuel Wales
2009-10-20 18:38       ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-20 18:48         ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 18:48       ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 18:52 ` Sven Bretfeld
2009-10-20 18:56   ` Sven Bretfeld
2009-10-20 19:06     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-10-20 19:36       ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 21:22         ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-21  6:36         ` Carsten Dominik
2009-10-21 18:36         ` Matt Lundin
2009-10-21 22:40           ` John Wiegley
2009-10-23  6:10             ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-23 10:34               ` John Wiegley
2009-10-23 15:24                 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-24  1:20                   ` John Wiegley
2009-10-24 12:55                     ` Matthew Lundin
2009-10-24 14:36                       ` Matthew Lundin
2009-10-25 12:26 ` Paul Mead
2009-10-25 12:37   ` Carsten Dominik
2009-10-25 12:50     ` Paul Mead
2009-10-25 12:38   ` Paul Mead

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