Re: Requesting some help with scheduled repeated tasks

[Sagar Shankar <sagar@scubed.in>]

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Thanks Christopher, the latter option seems to accomplish what I require
though not very elegant

With Regards,
Sagar

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au>
wrote:

> Hi Sagar,
>
> I think you either want a repeating task see
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Repeated-tasks.html
>
> or to use org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift see
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Structure-editing.html#Structure-editing
>
> I think repeated tasks repeat for ever, so from your description
> org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift might be better.
>
> I hope that helps,
> Chris.
>
> On 26 January 2015 at 14:13, Sagar Shankar <sagar@scubed.in> wrote:
>
>> Hi all, been using Org-Mode for just over a month now and have stumbled
>> into something that I cannot still figure out how to implement.
>>
>> I want to set aside a fixed amount of time each day (say 2 hours) at a
>> specific time(18-00-20:00 say) to work on a specific task. I want this task
>> to repeat for 7 days and for state changes (from TODO to DONE) to be
>> tracked for those 7 days. The latter while ideal, is also optional, as in a
>> base case, I'd be happy to just get the task automatically marked TODO 7
>> times in my Agenda till the 7 days are over.
>>
>> Right now, I've tried using the following syntax:
>>
>> ** TODO Work on XYZ
>>    SCHEDULED: <2015-01-21 Wed 20:30-21:30>-- <2015-01-28 Wed 20:30-21:30>
>>
>> When I mark this as complete for today, all the other occurrences are
>> also marked as DONE, which I do not want. Another confusing factor is that
>> instead of counting 7 occurrences of this task, Org counts it as 8 (which
>> is another thing I'd love to get explained)
>>
>> I know tracking repeated tasks is best suited for Org-Habits but I cannot
>> find anywhere in the documentation for that module, a parameter that allows
>> me to track habits for only 7 times or 8 times say, and for that habit to
>> be inserted into the agenda at a specific time only.
>>
>> Would really appreciate some advice!
>>
>> Thanks for your time,
>> Sagar
>>
>
>

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