Repeating tasks

Repeating tasks

[Marvin Doyley]

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Hi there,

Does anybody knows how to setup org to schedule repeated task between a
specified range of dates. For example, suppose I plan to work on a grant
proposal between 10 am - 1 pm every other day from May 1 to June 1, how
would I do this ?   My current practice is specify the start date with a
repeater (in this case +2d), and then delete task when the deadline has
passed. It though it would be more efficient I could assign a date range
rather than just the start date.


Cheers,
M

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Re: Repeating tasks

[Alexander Baier]

Hi Marvin,

Marvin Doyley <marvinpas@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi there,
>
> Does anybody knows how to setup org to schedule repeated task between
> a specified range of dates. For example, suppose I plan to work on a
> grant proposal between 10 am - 1 pm every other day from May 1 to
> June 1, how would I do this ?   My current practice is specify the
> start date with a repeater (in this case +2d), and then delete task
> when the deadline has passed. It though it would be more efficient I
> could assign a date range rather than just the start date.
>
>
> Cheers,
> M 

If I understand your situation correctly, you might take a look at
Habits. If you mark them done, they will be rescheduled to the next date
you specified.  Roughly it should look like this:

* TODO Work on proposal
  :SCHEDULED:  <2013-05-01 Wed 22:00 .+2d>
  :PROPERTIES:
  :STYLE: habit
  :END:

But your are probably better off looking at the part of the manual
regarding habits.

Regards,
Alex

Re: Repeating tasks

[Marvin Doyley]

org-habit is not what I am looking for.

I would like to do something like

* TODO write proposal
Scheduled:<2013-04-30 Tue 13:00-15:00 >--<2013-06-02 Mon> +2d

The idea is to repeat this task every other day from 2013-04-30 to 2013-06-02 (from 13:30 to 15:00)

cheers
M

Re: Repeating tasks

[Alexander Baier]

Hi Marvin,

Marvin Doyley <m.doyley@rochester.edu> writes:
> org-habit is not what I am looking for.
>
> I would like to do something like
>
> * TODO write proposal
> Scheduled:<2013-04-30 Tue 13:00-15:00 >--<2013-06-02 Mon> +2d
>
> The idea is to repeat this task every other day from 2013-04-30 to 2013-06-02 (from 13:30 to 15:00)
>
> cheers
> M

Ok, then I think diary sexp should do the trick.  Try the following:

** TODO 13:00-15:00 write proposal
<%%(and (org-block 2013 4 30 2013 6 2) (org-cyclic 2 2013 4 30))>


Regards,
Alex

Re: Repeating tasks

[Marvin Doyley]

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for
cheers
M

I will give it a try

cheers
M
On Apr 29, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Marvin,
> 
> Marvin Doyley <m.doyley@rochester.edu> writes:
>> org-habit is not what I am looking for.
>> 
>> I would like to do something like
>> 
>> * TODO write proposal
>> Scheduled:<2013-04-30 Tue 13:00-15:00 >--<2013-06-02 Mon> +2d
>> 
>> The idea is to repeat this task every other day from 2013-04-30 to 2013-06-02 (from 13:30 to 15:00)
>> 
>> cheers
>> M
> 
> Ok, then I think diary sexp should do the trick.  Try the following:
> 
> ** TODO 13:00-15:00 write proposal
> <%%(and (org-block 2013 4 30 2013 6 2) (org-cyclic 2 2013 4 30))>
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Alex