From: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Requesting some help with scheduled repeated tasks
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 06:09:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <olu4mrc21rp.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAAP45ez=CF1Rg=ztrdg_TdtOYKovLT1tj1q-YuL-vp4VAzqHSQ@mail.gmail.com
Hi Sagar,
Sagar Shankar <sagar@scubed.in> writes:
> Thanks Christopher, the latter option seems to accomplish what I
> require though not very elegant
I though so first, too. But by now I came to like that approach a lot.
It provides so much flexibility with the individual instances (like
moving, keeping notes, cancellation, etc.).
Give it some time and maybe you'll like it in the end ;-)
Regards,
Andreas
>
> With Regards,
> Sagar
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Christopher Witte
> <chris@witte.net.au> 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 <sagar@scubed.in>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-27 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-26 13:13 Requesting some help with scheduled repeated tasks Sagar Shankar
2015-01-26 13:19 ` Christopher Witte
2015-01-27 5:56 ` Sagar Shankar
2015-01-27 6:09 ` Andreas Leha [this message]
2015-01-27 10:25 ` Samuel Loury
2015-01-26 15:59 ` Loris Bennett
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