From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Horn Subject: Re: Repeating tasks on specific days of the week Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:00:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r5gxy0ja.fsf@archdesk.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60250 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ovk7O-0005lR-Mz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:01:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ovk7N-0001su-Cw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:01:14 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:47174) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ovk7N-0001so-8y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:01:13 -0400 Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so9783123iwn.0 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:01:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87r5gxy0ja.fsf@archdesk.localdomain> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Matt Lundin Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Matt, Thanks for confirming that separate repeating tasks is the best solution. Best, Jeff On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Matt Lundin wrote: > Jeff Horn writes: > >> Hi everyone! >> >> I was wondering how to create repeating tasks for, say, Tuesday and >> Thursday at noon. I found this on stack overflow: http://cl.ly/2K8c >> >> Is that really the best answer? Can this not be accomplished with >> symbolic expressions? >> >> Seems like a great feature for academics and students. Surely, I'm >> ignorant, and someone has a better solution than creating multiple >> repeating tasks? > > AFAIK, one cannot use complex symbolic expressions with repeating tasks; > the moment a headline with such an expression is marked done, it is > removed from the agenda. The only solution, at the moment, is to create > different entries for each desired day of the week: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > * Tuesday task > =A0SCHEDULED: <2010-09-14 Tue +1w> > > * Thursday task > =A0SCHEDULED: <2010-09-16 Thu +1w> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Best, > Matt > --=20 Jeffrey Horn PhD Student in Economics George Mason University (704) 271-4797 jhorn@gmu.edu jrhorn424@gmail.com