From: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-mode Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Added support for "habit tracking"
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:11:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2oco2f0rz.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A40A66B-04FB-4D86-A705-BB5FA18D148F@gmail.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:48:32 -0400")
John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:
> On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Matt Lundin wrote:
>
>> 1. The syntax for defining habits seems fairly complex. One must add a
>> repeating scheduled timestamp, a repeating deadline timestamp and a
>> property. I was wondering if there could be anyway to automate
>> creating
>> new habits---e.g., a dialog that asks for the appropriate time spans.
>> (My own preference would be to use a new timestamp notation to
>> indicate
>> habits. I'm not sure what this would look like. Perhaps something like
>> this: SCHEDULED: <2009-10-17 Sat !+2+2> --- where the first number is
>> the repeating span and the second is the "grace period". Of course, I
>> have no idea whether this is possible.)
>
> I agree with you here, and think that a more comprehensive SCHEDULED
> syntax might be just the fix. I'll look into this. Perhaps using a
> syntax like "!+2/2".
Thanks. And, of course, if a new timestamp syntax proves too
complicated, I'm more than happy to use the current implementation. :)
>
>> 3. The faces for the graph are difficult to read against dark
>> backgrounds. (See attached image.)
>
> I'll fix this too.
>
>> 4. I currently use the tag :HABIT: to track habits. This allows for
>> easy
>> filtering in the agenda. I'm wondering whether there might be an
>> option
>> to designate habits with a user-defined tag rather than the STYLE
>> property. The advantage would be much faster agenda searches for
>> habits.
>
> You can search for STYLE="habit". I myself use contextual tags on the
> habits, because some of them aren't appropriate in other location, and
> I wouldn't want to see ":HABIT:" in the right-hand column for every
> one.
>
> Also, note that you can press K now to filter habits in and out of the
> agenda view. They are also by default restricted to only appearing in
> todays' agenda view.
I see. That works very nicely. Sorry I missed it the first time through
the documentation. This eliminates one of the main reason I had for
switching to a tag-based implementation.
Thanks again! I look forward to playing with this some more.
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-20 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-19 8:26 Added support for "habit tracking" John Wiegley
2009-10-19 8:28 ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 14:02 ` Matt Lundin
2009-10-20 15:29 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-10-20 15:56 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-10-20 16:55 ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 17:13 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-20 17:19 ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 18:20 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-20 16:48 ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 17:11 ` Matthew Lundin [this message]
2009-10-20 18:30 ` Samuel Wales
2009-10-20 18:38 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-20 18:48 ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 18:48 ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 18:52 ` Sven Bretfeld
2009-10-20 18:56 ` Sven Bretfeld
2009-10-20 19:06 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-10-20 19:36 ` John Wiegley
2009-10-20 21:22 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-21 6:36 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-10-21 18:36 ` Matt Lundin
2009-10-21 22:40 ` John Wiegley
2009-10-23 6:10 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-23 10:34 ` John Wiegley
2009-10-23 15:24 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-24 1:20 ` John Wiegley
2009-10-24 12:55 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-10-24 14:36 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-10-25 12:26 ` Paul Mead
2009-10-25 12:37 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-10-25 12:50 ` Paul Mead
2009-10-25 12:38 ` Paul Mead
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