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From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)
Subject: Re: Org-mode Habit with Varying Description
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:02:04 -0400
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Daya Atapattu writes:

> Is there a way to create a habit that picks-up the description 
> from a list? 
> 
> I like to schedule studying a book: It would be scheduled as 
> "Read pages 100-125." Then the next day it should read "Read 
> pages 126-150."  The description of the habit varies; org-mode 
> picks that up sequentially from a list. 

Maybe you want to take a look at TODO dependencies (info "(org) 
TODO dependencies") set `org-enforce-todo-dependencies' to t, and 
do something like

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
  * TODO Read book
  :PROPERTIES:
  :ORDERED:  t
  :END:
  ** TODO Pages 1-150
  ** TODO Pages 151-300
   
#+END_EXAMPLE

Then when closing one of the sub headlines, schedule the next one.

Best,
-- 
Jorge.