Re: Custom forwarding for a scheduled task

[Fletcher Charest <fletcher.charest@gmail.com>]

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Dear Sébastien,

Thank you for your answer, it is useful. Now I can see that I already
worked on a task even if I reschedule it and don't see the "Sched. 2x"
mention. But I still have to manually reschedule the task to the next week,
which is what I *really* want to avoid, even at the price of not seeing
what I already did either in the form of clocking time or with the "Sched.
2x" mention (maybe this wasn't clear in my first message).

I will try to write something with my very poor level of emacs-lisp. My
reasoning would be something like: "if a task that has this particular
property was scheduled for being done x days ago (with x > 0), and if it is
not marked DONE, then reschedule it (7 - x) days later". I could maybe
include a comment saying that this task was automatically rescheduled, with
a timestamp. I just hope I'm not reinventing the wheel somewhere in that
process.

Best regards


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Sebastien Vauban
<sva-news@mygooglest.com>wrote:

> Hello Fletcher,
>
> Fletcher Charest wrote:
> > First of all, apologies if I'm doing something wrong - I'm not used to
> > posting in mailing lists.
> >
> > I read in the Org manual, about scheduled tasks :
> >
> > "A reminder that the scheduled date has passed will be present in the
> > compilation for today, until the entry is marked DONE, i.e., the task
> will
> > automatically be forwarded until completed."
> >
> > Sometimes, I schedule a task but can only carry out my second day of work
> > on that task one week later (or my first day if I couldn't work on it on
> > the scheduled day). I would like to know if it is possible to schedule a
> > task, for example, on a Sunday, and see it appear in the agenda the next
> > Sunday with the mention "Sched. 2x:  TODO my task". This way I know I
> have
> > to carry out my second day of work on that task on that day.
> >
> > I tried to use delays for this but couldn't obtain anything.
> >
> > I'm sorry if this is standard functionality or if it has been answered
> > somewhere. I usually find all my answers about org-mode online but this
> > time I couldn't find any info.
>
> This hasn't been answered yet, neither is it a common request.
>
> FWIW, I removed such scheduling info (2x, 3x...) because it scared me to
> hell
> when it went over 99 days delay.
>
> But, to answer you, no, I don't think it's doable in the current system.
> Though, you could get more or less the same functionality by clocking time,
> rescheduling your task for the available Sunday, and clock again. On that
> day,
> you would see that you're clocking hours 8 to 15 of your work.
>
> Best regards,
>   Seb
>
> --
> Sebastien Vauban
>
>
>

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