From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard G Riley Subject: Re: Agenda view for logging? Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:42:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <47FBC7F8.1050808@yahoo.com> <47FCF63E.9070805@yahoo.com> <47FD1F8B.2000708@yahoo.com> <9B2980C0-6C99-48D4-A1D2-5E33EA0D487E@science.uva.nl> <87tzi9olt9.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> <47FE2DA1.3060109@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JjyvC-0006NR-C0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:42:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JjyvA-0006N6-S3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:42:42 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JjyvA-0006N3-ON for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:42:40 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.153]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JjyvA-0004Qi-GT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:42:40 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so59151fga.30 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:42:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <47FE2DA1.3060109@yahoo.com> (Jose Robins's message of "Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:09:21 -0700") 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: wulfhomme13-rook@yahoo.com Cc: org-mode Hello, , Joel J. Adamson! Jose Robins writes: > Joel J. Adamson wrote: >> Carsten Dominik writes: >> >> >>> Hi Jose, Manish >>> >>> I don't really think that it would be reasonable to make any entry >>> that contains a string that looks like a time show up in the agenda. >>> >> >> I think I missed part of this conversation. If I put >> >> ** Wash the dog <2008-04-10 09:56 > >> >> in one of my org-agenda-files, it shows up at 9:56 in the agenda >> time-grid. Is this not the intended behavior? >> >> Joel >> >> > Yes, that is intended behavior and it works fine. The question was > whether a time range without a time-stamp would work as > well. something like... > > ** 9:55 am - 10:15 am wash the dog > - would put this task in "today's" agenda view. > > I see Carsten's point about not wanting to recognize any arbitrary > text string which looks like a time to be considered a > "time-of-specification". A possible compromise is to have a string > which looks like "<10:15-10:30> " to be considered as a task for today > which appears @ the appropriate time in the agenda view. The beauty is > that (a) you avoid having to type in extra keystrokes to schedule it, > (b) no need to clutter with an additional date and (c) if it doesn't > get done or something, when I do the agenda view tomorrow, it shows up > there as well and it doesn't get lost. Better would be a duration rather than an end date/time.