From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Abrahams Subject: Re: Feature request Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:03:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87sk0euk8k.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56542 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P50FT-00060N-6z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:03:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P50FH-0001Bp-4j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:03:43 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:34321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P50FH-0001Bj-2h for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:03:39 -0400 Received: by qyk29 with SMTP id 29so3251288qyk.0 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:03:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87sk0euk8k.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> 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: Bernt Hansen Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org At Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:43:07 -0400, Bernt Hansen wrote: > > David Abrahams writes: > > > Hi All, > > > > I have to reschedule quite a few items daily. Often they're > > yesterday's items that I need to reschedule for today. > > > > `C-c C-s . RET' > > > > is a bit much typing for that, so I re-bound `S' to > > org-agenda-schedule. But > > > > `S . RET' > > > > is still a bit much. I'd like it if the default when rescheduling was > > always for today, instead of the date the item is already scheduled > > for, so I could > > > > `S RET' > > > > in the usual case. What about a customizable option to set the > > default schedule-for date? > > Hi David, > > Why are you rescheduling items everyday? Because there's always something I didn't get done yesterday, and I often have pushed too many tasks forward onto a given day, and don't want to see more than about 15 TODOs in my agenda on any given day. > That seems like a lot of overhead to me. What's wrong with leaving > the item on the first scheduled date and just allow the agenda to > show how many days it has already been scheduled for -- until you > mark it DONE? Because then they show up in the consciousness like a failure instead of as just what I have to do today, and they tend to pile up and lead to a state of despair, where the agenda is too daunting to face. They need to be processed. I need to re-negotiate the contract I made with myself about when they were getting done. > Alternatively if it's a repeating task, you can use a single day > repeater and just mark the item DONE to move it to the next day. It's not. > One thing I've been trying to do is minimize the amount of time I > spend on overhead stuff for my tasks and trading that for time I > actually do work on completing the tasks instead. Thanks, but I need to do this to keep on track. Regards, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com