Re: [feature request] More flexible repeats

[John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>]

>>>>> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> I have habits that I need to perform, e.g., every weekday, or four times a
> week.  I don't see a way to express that.  If I could schedule a task for
> +1.4d or +1.75d (respectively), I'd be happy.

Habits aren't really for scheduling, they're for monitoring a simple kind of
consistency.  So, if you *actually* need to do something four times a week,
habits aren't the best way to express that need.

If I had something that I wanted to do around four times a week, I'd use this:

  .+1d/2d

Which means, I could do it 7 times a week, or I should do it 3 times a week,
but I'm likely going to fall somewhere in between.

Habits were never meant as a precise way to keep you on a schedule.  The
closest way I can think of to do that within Org's current framework is to
schedule four different instances of your task, each with its own 1 week
repeating interval.  That way, you'd see the item appearing in your agenda
four times.  However, if you start slipping, things get very messy, very fast.

Lastly, even if you did have a 1.4d repeating interval for a habit, Habits
would only show you if you'd been consistent at doing the task every 1.4 days.
It would never be able to tell you if you'd been consistent at doing it 4
times within any given week.

John