Re: Repeating task hourly

[Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016@gmail.com>]

Hi Kevin,

On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 11:46, Kevin Liu <kevin@nivekuil.com> wrote:

> On 29 July 2020 04:06, Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Kevin, how do you see an hourly repeater would work with org-habit's
>> consistency graph?  Or, more generally, what would be the purpose of 
>> an
>> hourly repeated habit task?
>
> An example of an hourly repeated habit task is exercise.  You might 
> want
> to stretch in the morning and then again at night.
>
> You raise a good point that the consistency graph isn't as useful as 
> it
> could be.  All it shows now is that the habit was done at least once 
> on
> that day.  I think this is still a little useful, if only to visually
> separate a habit from other tasks on the agenda.  It could be made 
> more
> useful by replacing the * with a count of the number of times the task
> was done that day, but that would be another patch.

I get why a task (exercising, taking medicine, etc) is usefully repeated 
a number of times a day, of course.  But a regular repeating task is 
perfectly fine for this.  Furthermore, considering the only thing 
org-habit does is to provide the consistency graph for the task, and if 
this does not really work for hourly repeaters, I still don't see the 
gain here.  And there would be other ways, in my view more appropriate 
ones, to separate some tasks, if that's desired.  IMHO, what you are 
proposing is just eliminating an error message which was deliberately 
placed there by the author, considering what org-habit is designed to 
do.  But this is just an user speaking, take this as a data point.

Anyway, you have replied just for me, off-list.  I presume you meant 
otherwise, and your point is relevant in the list, so I reincluded the 
CCs to it.

Best,
Gustavo.