[emacs-wiki-discuss] Recurring tasks

[Alan Schussman]

Hi all-

There was a neat post on 43folders.com recently about recurring tasks, 
or tasks that are cyclic in that they repeat at a given interval, but 
the interval starts each time the task is completed. So, rather than 
happening "every Tuesday," a task shows up on the tasklist "every seven 
days," or "every six months." I imagine that planner could do this, too: 
perhaps in the style of planner-cyclic, we could have a file 
~/.diary.recurring-tasks:

  7 2005.01.15 #B0 File bills
 30 2004.12.30 #B0 Return library books
150 2005.01.10 #B0 Make densit appointment

where the first number is the interval, in days, between recurrences, 
and the date is the day the task was last completed -- updated by 
planner when the task is marked as done.

Is something like this do-able, or already implemented? It strikes me as 
being pretty handy.

-Alan