Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] diary and tasks

[lauren]

I had tried task-based appointments earlier, but hadn't configured to have them 
appear in the *Schedule section.  that provided part of what I'm looking for.
Another aspect of Diary (or planner-diary) that I like is having appointments 
for several days (like the coming week) displayed;  clearly I don't have a LOT 
of meetings to worry about :-)

Is there a way to accomplish that?  I looked through the docs and through the 
code, but it wasn't obvious to me.

Alternatively, could I monkey with the planner task code so that 
planner-timeclock operates on more things than tasks?  In other words, if I do 
planner-task-in-progress (C-c C-z) on a task, planner performs as expected: 
marks it in progress and, more importantly for this discussion, makes that task 
active in .timelog.  
If I do planner-task-in-progress on a non-task line of my day page, planner 
does nothing (I know: its not EXPECTED to do anything!)  
But what I would like is, if point is on a line of my day-page *Diary section, 
for planner to update .timelog with that diary entry (and the relevant project 
page if there is a project specified in the line).
Does that make sense?  Of course anything is possible, and I wouldn't mind 
taking a whack at this myself, but if someone 
has already done this, or could offer suggestions, I'd appreciate it!!


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Sullivan" <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] diary and tasks
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 01:26:07 -0400

> 
> address@hidden writes:
> 
> > Is there a way to get both the convenience of having the Diary display in my
> > daily page AND the ability to select an appointment and mark it in progress 
> > so
> > that my time reports and project page both are aware of the time spent on 
> > that
> > appointment?
> >
> 
> Have you checked out the planner-appt library?
> 
> You can have tasks like:
> 
> #A   _ @12:45 Do something (TaskPool)
> 
> (with the time at the beginning of the task description)
> 
> It's also possible to get an overview of your appointments with this
> method. Check out the section on "Task-based Appointments" in the manual.
> 
> 
> --
> -johnsu01
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