Re: How to "snooze" a repeating item

From: Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: "Andrew M. Nuxoll" <nuxoll@up.edu>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to "snooze" a repeating item
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:04:53 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b15aff3.0807c00a.4c65.1d09@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9151.1259708957@alphaville.usa.hp.com>

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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