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[Orgmode] Re: How to "snooze" a repeating item
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Bernt Hansen |
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[Orgmode] Re: How to "snooze" a repeating item |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:58:34 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
"Andrew M. Nuxoll" <address@hidden> writes:
> I've been using org-mode for four months now and I just love it. So I
> think I'm post-newb but still very amateur.
>
> Anyway, my to-do list has several repeating scheduled items like this
> contrived example:
>
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
> SCHEDULED: <2009-12-08 Tue +1w>
>
> Or, in English, I meet with Sarah for lunch once a week on Tuesdays.
>
> Now, let's say that Sarah calls on Monday afternoon and says, "Can we
> do lunch on Wednesday this week?" and I say "Sure thing."
>
> Now I have a problem. I could shift the date to Wednesday like this:
>
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
> SCHEDULED: <2009-12-09 Wed +1w>
>
> But that will mean that the following week it will *still* be
> scheduled for Wednesdays (specifically Dec 16 instead of Dec 15). I
> miss my regular lunch date with Sarah and catch ire for standing her
> up.
>
> How do I handle situations like this?
>
> It seems like I either need a time stamp "stack" or I need a temporary
> flag that "self destructs" after a prescribed time.
>
> :AMN:
I would probably clone the entry once and set it for Wednesday and let
the weekly repeater continue for next Tuesday.
HTH,
Bernt