Scheduled events persists unless deleted

Scheduled events persists unless deleted

[Carl Bolduc]

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Hi!

Still very new to Org... my setup is very simple at the moment, 1 file for
work and 1 file for home. At the top of each of those files, I keep a "*
Event" entry and I put my meetings and events under there.

If , for example, and event is scheduled for yesterday, it will show up
today as well in my agenda, with "2x" in front of it. I have to delete the
entry if I want it to go away. Since these are often not related to ToDo, I
would like to keep them but I would like them to appear only on the day they
are scheduled.

Is it possible?
Thanks,
Carl

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Re: Scheduled events persists unless deleted

[Brian van den Broek]

Carl Bolduc said unto the world upon 09/05/2007 09:02 AM:
> Hi!
> 
> Still very new to Org... my setup is very simple at the moment, 1 file for
> work and 1 file for home. At the top of each of those files, I keep a "*
> Event" entry and I put my meetings and events under there.
> 
> If , for example, and event is scheduled for yesterday, it will show up
> today as well in my agenda, with "2x" in front of it. I have to delete the
> entry if I want it to go away. Since these are often not related to ToDo, I
> would like to keep them but I would like them to appear only on the day they
> are scheduled.
> 
> Is it possible?
> Thanks,
> Carl

Hi Carl,

I'm pretty new, too. But, for an event such as a meeting, have you 
tried not scheduling it, but instead simply marking it with an active 
timestamp? Try something like this:

* Events

** Meeting with with Pat about foos and bars
    <2007-09-09 10:30-12:00>

*** TODO Prepare notes on foos and bars for meeting with Pat
     SCHEDULED: <2007-09-04 Thu> DEADLINE: <2007-09-08 Mon -2d>


HTH,

Brian vdB

Re: Scheduled events persists unless deleted

[Brian van den Broek]

Brian van den Broek said unto the world upon 09/05/2007 09:22 AM:

<snip>

> *** TODO Prepare notes on foos and bars for meeting with Pat
>     SCHEDULED: <2007-09-04 Thu> DEADLINE: <2007-09-08 Mon -2d>


Hi all,

To forestall possible confusion: the days of the week are messed up 
because I composed my last in my email client by copy, paste, and 
adjust of actual org mode schedule and deadline data rather than in an 
org-mode buffer. Oh, and this all occurred before my first coffee 
brewed :-)

Best,

Brian vdB

Re: Scheduled events persists unless deleted

[Carsten Dominik]

This is becoming a FAQ, if anyone has an idea how I should
present this more clearly in the documentation, let me know.

- Carsten

On Sep 5, 2007, at 15:22, Brian van den Broek wrote:

> Carl Bolduc said unto the world upon 09/05/2007 09:02 AM:
>> Hi!
>> Still very new to Org... my setup is very simple at the moment, 1 
>> file for
>> work and 1 file for home. At the top of each of those files, I keep a 
>> "*
>> Event" entry and I put my meetings and events under there.
>> If , for example, and event is scheduled for yesterday, it will show 
>> up
>> today as well in my agenda, with "2x" in front of it. I have to 
>> delete the
>> entry if I want it to go away. Since these are often not related to 
>> ToDo, I
>> would like to keep them but I would like them to appear only on the 
>> day they
>> are scheduled.
>> Is it possible?
>> Thanks,
>> Carl
>
> Hi Carl,
>
> I'm pretty new, too. But, for an event such as a meeting, have you 
> tried not scheduling it, but instead simply marking it with an active 
> timestamp? Try something like this:
>
> * Events
>
> ** Meeting with with Pat about foos and bars
>    <2007-09-09 10:30-12:00>
>
> *** TODO Prepare notes on foos and bars for meeting with Pat
>     SCHEDULED: <2007-09-04 Thu> DEADLINE: <2007-09-08 Mon -2d>
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Brian vdB
>
>
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Re: Scheduled events persists unless deleted

[Brian van den Broek]

Carl Bolduc said unto the world upon 09/05/2007 09:27 AM:

<my response at bottom>

> Nice!, that fixes my problem. Although I liked the fact that I could hit C-c
> C-s to get the calendar and just clicking on the date to schedule the
> events. Is there another key binding to trigger the calendar for selecting a
> timestamp without scheduling the event?
> Thanks,
> Carl
> 
> On 9/5/07, Brian van den Broek <broek@cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>> Carl Bolduc said unto the world upon 09/05/2007 09:02 AM:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Still very new to Org... my setup is very simple at the moment, 1 file
>> for
>>> work and 1 file for home. At the top of each of those files, I keep a "*
>>> Event" entry and I put my meetings and events under there.
>>>
>>> If , for example, and event is scheduled for yesterday, it will show up
>>> today as well in my agenda, with "2x" in front of it. I have to delete
>> the
>>> entry if I want it to go away. Since these are often not related to
>> ToDo, I
>>> would like to keep them but I would like them to appear only on the day
>> they
>>> are scheduled.
>>>
>>> Is it possible?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Carl
>> Hi Carl,
>>
>> I'm pretty new, too. But, for an event such as a meeting, have you
>> tried not scheduling it, but instead simply marking it with an active
>> timestamp? Try something like this:
>>
>> * Events
>>
>> ** Meeting with with Pat about foos and bars
>>     <2007-09-09 10:30-12:00>
>>
>> *** TODO Prepare notes on foos and bars for meeting with Pat
>>      SCHEDULED: <2007-09-04 Thu> DEADLINE: <2007-09-08 Mon -2d>
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Brian vdB
>>
> 


Hi Carl,

I'm glad that helped.

For the new question:

   C-h f org-time-stamp

should sort you out.

Two other things:

1) Please reply to the list by default, not to me personally. (`Reply 
to All' should be an option in your mail client.)

2) Unless someone leaps into to tell me that I'm wrong about the 
emacs-orgmode list culture, please don't top post.


Best,

Brian vdB

Re: Scheduled events persists unless deleted

[Carl Bolduc]

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On 9/5/07, Brian van den Broek <broek@cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>
> Carl Bolduc said unto the world upon 09/05/2007 09:27 AM:
>
> <my response at bottom>
>
> > Nice!, that fixes my problem. Although I liked the fact that I could hit
> C-c
> > C-s to get the calendar and just clicking on the date to schedule the
> > events. Is there another key binding to trigger the calendar for
> selecting a
> > timestamp without scheduling the event?
> > Thanks,
> > Carl
> >
> > On 9/5/07, Brian van den Broek <broek@cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
> >> Carl Bolduc said unto the world upon 09/05/2007 09:02 AM:
> >>> Hi!
> >>>
> >>> Still very new to Org... my setup is very simple at the moment, 1 file
> >> for
> >>> work and 1 file for home. At the top of each of those files, I keep a
> "*
> >>> Event" entry and I put my meetings and events under there.
> >>>
> >>> If , for example, and event is scheduled for yesterday, it will show
> up
> >>> today as well in my agenda, with "2x" in front of it. I have to delete
> >> the
> >>> entry if I want it to go away. Since these are often not related to
> >> ToDo, I
> >>> would like to keep them but I would like them to appear only on the
> day
> >> they
> >>> are scheduled.
> >>>
> >>> Is it possible?
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Carl
> >> Hi Carl,
> >>
> >> I'm pretty new, too. But, for an event such as a meeting, have you
> >> tried not scheduling it, but instead simply marking it with an active
> >> timestamp? Try something like this:
> >>
> >> * Events
> >>
> >> ** Meeting with with Pat about foos and bars
> >>     <2007-09-09 10:30-12:00>
> >>
> >> *** TODO Prepare notes on foos and bars for meeting with Pat
> >>      SCHEDULED: <2007-09-04 Thu> DEADLINE: <2007-09-08 Mon -2d>
> >>
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >>
> >> Brian vdB
> >>
> >
>
>
> Hi Carl,
>
> I'm glad that helped.
>
> For the new question:
>
>    C-h f org-time-stamp
>
> should sort you out.
>
> Two other things:
>
> 1) Please reply to the list by default, not to me personally. (`Reply
> to All' should be an option in your mail client.)
>
> 2) Unless someone leaps into to tell me that I'm wrong about the
> emacs-orgmode list culture, please don't top post.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Brian vdB
>

Understood! I was just using the default of Gmail...
Thank you

Carl

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Re: Scheduled events persists unless deleted

[Brian van den Broek]

Carsten Dominik said unto the world upon 09/05/2007 09:54 AM:
> This is becoming a FAQ, if anyone has an idea how I should
> present this more clearly in the documentation, let me know.
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> On Sep 5, 2007, at 15:22, Brian van den Broek wrote:
> 
>> Carl Bolduc said unto the world upon 09/05/2007 09:02 AM:
>>> Hi!
>>> Still very new to Org... my setup is very simple at the moment, 1 
>>> file for
>>> work and 1 file for home. At the top of each of those files, I keep a "*
>>> Event" entry and I put my meetings and events under there.
>>> If , for example, and event is scheduled for yesterday, it will show up
>>> today as well in my agenda, with "2x" in front of it. I have to 
>>> delete the
>>> entry if I want it to go away. Since these are often not related to 
>>> ToDo, I
>>> would like to keep them but I would like them to appear only on the 
>>> day they
>>> are scheduled.
>>> Is it possible?
>>> Thanks,


Carl,


I'm reflexively anti top-posting. But, I guess you can take Carsten's 
practice to indicate that I might have been wrong about top posting to 
this list :-)


Carsten,

Your question seems a tough one to me. I almost posted the same form 
of question when I first encountered org-mode. Once I worked it out, I 
looked over the manual to see how it was I missed it, and what changes 
might have made that less likely. No offence to Carl or any other 
posers of the question, but I couldn't see how I did miss it, and I 
concluded my brain had been on the fritz when I read the relevant 
parts :-)

Perhaps part of the issue is that the TODO items chapter comes long 
before the timestamp chapter? Maybe that naturally leads many minds to 
think that TODO's are org-mode's basic way of registering events, etc.?

I've not reread all the relevant sections in a while and this is typed 
pretty much at the speed of thought. But, perhaps it would help to add 
the following text to the end of 8.3 Deadlines and Scheduling:

``SCHEDULED and DEADLINE keywords introduce advanced warnings into the 
  agenda display for the items with which they are associated. If you 
wish an item to be included in the agenda display on some particular 
day without any notation of an impending event introduced into the 
display of previous days of the agenda, simply include an active 
timestamp in the item without any SCHEDULED or DEADLINE keywords. You 
will still be able to see such items coming up when viewing the agenda 
display in week/month/year view, but there will be no notation 
introduced into the display of the days in advance of the day of the 
timestamp.''

That's clumsy, but it's the best I can do in the time I have :-)

HTH,

Brian vdB