How to "snooze" a repeating item

How to "snooze" a repeating item

[Andrew M. Nuxoll]

I've been using org-mode for four months now and I just love it.  So I 
think I'm post-newb but still very amateur.

Anyway, my to-do list has several repeating scheduled items like this 
contrived example:

***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
      SCHEDULED: <2009-12-08 Tue +1w>

Or, in English, I meet with Sarah for lunch once a week on Tuesdays.

Now, let's say that Sarah calls on Monday afternoon and says, "Can we do 
lunch on Wednesday this week?" and I say "Sure thing."

Now I have a problem.  I could shift the date to Wednesday like this:

***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
      SCHEDULED: <2009-12-09 Wed +1w>

But that will mean that the following week it will *still* be scheduled 
for Wednesdays (specifically Dec 16 instead of Dec 15).  I miss my 
regular lunch date with Sarah and catch ire for standing her up.

How do I handle situations like this? 

It seems like I either need a time stamp "stack" or I need a temporary 
flag that "self destructs" after a prescribed time.

:AMN:

Re: How to "snooze" a repeating item

[Bernt Hansen]

"Andrew M. Nuxoll" <nuxoll@up.edu> writes:

> I've been using org-mode for four months now and I just love it.  So I
> think I'm post-newb but still very amateur.
>
> Anyway, my to-do list has several repeating scheduled items like this
> contrived example:
>
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
>      SCHEDULED: <2009-12-08 Tue +1w>
>
> Or, in English, I meet with Sarah for lunch once a week on Tuesdays.
>
> Now, let's say that Sarah calls on Monday afternoon and says, "Can we
> do lunch on Wednesday this week?" and I say "Sure thing."
>
> Now I have a problem.  I could shift the date to Wednesday like this:
>
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
>      SCHEDULED: <2009-12-09 Wed +1w>
>
> But that will mean that the following week it will *still* be
> scheduled for Wednesdays (specifically Dec 16 instead of Dec 15).  I
> miss my regular lunch date with Sarah and catch ire for standing her
> up.
>
> How do I handle situations like this? 
>
> It seems like I either need a time stamp "stack" or I need a temporary
> flag that "self destructs" after a prescribed time.
>
> :AMN:

I would probably clone the entry once and set it for Wednesday and let
the weekly repeater continue for next Tuesday.

HTH,
Bernt

Re: How to "snooze" a repeating item

[Nick Dokos]

Andrew M. Nuxoll <nuxoll@up.edu> wrote:

> I've been using org-mode for four months now and I just love it.  So I 
> think I'm post-newb but still very amateur.
> 
> Anyway, my to-do list has several repeating scheduled items like this 
> contrived example:
> 
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
>       SCHEDULED: <2009-12-08 Tue +1w>
> 
> Or, in English, I meet with Sarah for lunch once a week on Tuesdays.
> 
> Now, let's say that Sarah calls on Monday afternoon and says, "Can we do 
> lunch on Wednesday this week?" and I say "Sure thing."
> 
> Now I have a problem.  I could shift the date to Wednesday like this:
> 
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
>       SCHEDULED: <2009-12-09 Wed +1w>
> 
> But that will mean that the following week it will *still* be scheduled 
> for Wednesdays (specifically Dec 16 instead of Dec 15).  I miss my 
> regular lunch date with Sarah and catch ire for standing her up.
> 
> How do I handle situations like this? 
> 
> It seems like I either need a time stamp "stack" or I need a temporary 
> flag that "self destructs" after a prescribed time.
> 
> :AMN:
> 

If you are looking for an exclusively org solution, this won't satisfy.
But here's how I would do it:

o go to the agenda, move to the item and press <RET> to visit it.

o copy/paste the subtree (C-c C-x M-w and C-c C-x C-y).

o In one copy, advance the date by a week (to skip tomorrow's reminder).

o In the other, advance the date to Wed and delete the repeater.

HTH,
Nick

PS. To paraphrase Bernt: "Repeat after me: It's just text."
    Every time I start thinking of all kinds of Rube-Goldbergesque
    solutions to simple problems, I whack myself on the head with
    Bernt's reminder and my sanity is restored !-)

Re: How to "snooze" a repeating item

[Darlan Cavalcante Moreira]

That's what I would do too. Also, I suggest making this entry an "habit" with
org-habit to see if you like it.


At Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:09:17 -0500,
Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> 
> Andrew M. Nuxoll <nuxoll@up.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I've been using org-mode for four months now and I just love it.  So I 
> > think I'm post-newb but still very amateur.
> > 
> > Anyway, my to-do list has several repeating scheduled items like this 
> > contrived example:
> > 
> > ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
> >       SCHEDULED: <2009-12-08 Tue +1w>
> > 
> > Or, in English, I meet with Sarah for lunch once a week on Tuesdays.
> > 
> > Now, let's say that Sarah calls on Monday afternoon and says, "Can we do 
> > lunch on Wednesday this week?" and I say "Sure thing."
> > 
> > Now I have a problem.  I could shift the date to Wednesday like this:
> > 
> > ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
> >       SCHEDULED: <2009-12-09 Wed +1w>
> > 
> > But that will mean that the following week it will *still* be scheduled 
> > for Wednesdays (specifically Dec 16 instead of Dec 15).  I miss my 
> > regular lunch date with Sarah and catch ire for standing her up.
> > 
> > How do I handle situations like this? 
> > 
> > It seems like I either need a time stamp "stack" or I need a temporary 
> > flag that "self destructs" after a prescribed time.
> > 
> > :AMN:
> > 
> 
> If you are looking for an exclusively org solution, this won't satisfy.
> But here's how I would do it:
> 
> o go to the agenda, move to the item and press <RET> to visit it.
> 
> o copy/paste the subtree (C-c C-x M-w and C-c C-x C-y).
> 
> o In one copy, advance the date by a week (to skip tomorrow's reminder).
> 
> o In the other, advance the date to Wed and delete the repeater.
> 
> HTH,
> Nick
> 
> PS. To paraphrase Bernt: "Repeat after me: It's just text."
>     Every time I start thinking of all kinds of Rube-Goldbergesque
>     solutions to simple problems, I whack myself on the head with
>     Bernt's reminder and my sanity is restored !-)
> 
> 
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Re: How to "snooze" a repeating item

[Andrew M. Nuxoll]

This is what I have been doing...but it's not very elegant and 
potentially confusing when I encounter it later.  It also throws off my 
time management numbers.

Can anyone supply a better solution?

:AMN:

Bernt Hansen wrote:
> I would probably clone the entry once and set it for Wednesday and let
> the weekly repeater continue for next Tuesday.
>
> HTH,
> Bernt
>   

Re: How to "snooze" a repeating item

[Luke Amdor]

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i've been using the org-agenda-date-later function to schedule things later.
I think it's what you're looking for. It's not bound to anything, but I bind
it to ")" via

(org-defkey org-agenda-mode-map ")" 'org-agenda-date-later)

Luke


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Andrew M. Nuxoll <nuxoll@up.edu> wrote:

> I've been using org-mode for four months now and I just love it.  So I
> think I'm post-newb but still very amateur.
>
> Anyway, my to-do list has several repeating scheduled items like this
> contrived example:
>
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
>     SCHEDULED: <2009-12-08 Tue +1w>
>
> Or, in English, I meet with Sarah for lunch once a week on Tuesdays.
>
> Now, let's say that Sarah calls on Monday afternoon and says, "Can we do
> lunch on Wednesday this week?" and I say "Sure thing."
>
> Now I have a problem.  I could shift the date to Wednesday like this:
>
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
>     SCHEDULED: <2009-12-09 Wed +1w>
>
> But that will mean that the following week it will *still* be scheduled for
> Wednesdays (specifically Dec 16 instead of Dec 15).  I miss my regular lunch
> date with Sarah and catch ire for standing her up.
>
> How do I handle situations like this?
> It seems like I either need a time stamp "stack" or I need a temporary flag
> that "self destructs" after a prescribed time.
>
> :AMN:
>
>
>
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RE: How to "snooze" a repeating item

[Nuxoll, Andrew]

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Thanks, Luke but I don't think that works.  I want a command that will move the event forward a day but still keep the repeat at a set interval from the original day.  It's still something I find I need to do frequently but have no way to do other than manually. =(

:AMN:


-----Original Message-----
From: Luke Amdor [mailto:luke.amdor@gmail.com]
Sent: Sun 1/17/2010 7:26 AM
To: Nuxoll, Andrew
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] How to "snooze" a repeating item
 
i've been using the org-agenda-date-later function to schedule things later.
I think it's what you're looking for. It's not bound to anything, but I bind
it to ")" via

(org-defkey org-agenda-mode-map ")" 'org-agenda-date-later)

Luke


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Andrew M. Nuxoll <nuxoll@up.edu> wrote:

> I've been using org-mode for four months now and I just love it.  So I
> think I'm post-newb but still very amateur.
>
> Anyway, my to-do list has several repeating scheduled items like this
> contrived example:
>
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
>     SCHEDULED: <2009-12-08 Tue +1w>
>
> Or, in English, I meet with Sarah for lunch once a week on Tuesdays.
>
> Now, let's say that Sarah calls on Monday afternoon and says, "Can we do
> lunch on Wednesday this week?" and I say "Sure thing."
>
> Now I have a problem.  I could shift the date to Wednesday like this:
>
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
>     SCHEDULED: <2009-12-09 Wed +1w>
>
> But that will mean that the following week it will *still* be scheduled for
> Wednesdays (specifically Dec 16 instead of Dec 15).  I miss my regular lunch
> date with Sarah and catch ire for standing her up.
>
> How do I handle situations like this?
> It seems like I either need a time stamp "stack" or I need a temporary flag
> that "self destructs" after a prescribed time.
>
> :AMN:
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
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