Re: Recurring TODO on weekdays only?

[Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>]

Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:

> * Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> ** TODO Dust hard drives
>>>    SCHEDULED: <2011-07-04 Mon +1w>
>>> ** TODO Dust hard drives
>>>    SCHEDULED: <2011-07-05 Tue +1w>
>>> ** TODO Dust hard drives
>>>    SCHEDULED: <2011-06-29 Wed +1w>
>>> ** TODO Dust hard drives
>>>    SCHEDULED: <2011-06-30 Thu +1w>
>>> ** TODO Dust hard drives
>>>    SCHEDULED: <2011-07-01 Fri +1w>
>>
>> ** TODO Dust hard drives
>>    <2011-07-04 Mon +1w>
>>    <2011-07-05 Tue +1w>
>>    <2011-07-06 Wed +1w>
>>    <2011-07-07 Thu +1w>
>>    <2011-07-08 Fri +1w>
>>
>> should do it ... 
>> ...
>> shouldn't it?
>
> It does.

It doesn't quite work for me. If I have 

* TODO Dust off hard drives
  SCHEDULED: <2011-06-29 Wed +1w>
  SCHEDULED: <2011-06-30 Thu +1w>
  SCHEDULED: <2011-07-01 Fri +1w>
  SCHEDULED: <2011-07-04 Mon +1w>
  SCHEDULED: <2011-07-05 Tue +1w>

then my agenda looks like this:

Wednesday  29 June 2011
  tmp:        Scheduled:  TODO Dust off hard drives
Thursday   30 June 2011
  tmp:        Sched. 2x:  TODO Dust off hard drives
  tmp:        Scheduled:  TODO Dust off hard drives
Friday      1 July 2011
  tmp:        Scheduled:  TODO Dust off hard drives

If then I mark yesterday's dusting as done in the agenda I get

* TODO Dust off hard drives
  SCHEDULED: <2011-07-06 Wed +1w>
  - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2011-06-30 Thu 12:33]
  SCHEDULED: <2011-07-07 Thu +1w>
  SCHEDULED: <2011-07-08 Fri +1w>
  SCHEDULED: <2011-07-11 Mon +1w>
  SCHEDULED: <2011-07-12 Tue +1w>

and all the tasks until next Wednesday disappear. This doesn't happen if
I have a separate repeating task for each day.

> But you should be aware that you «lose» a cool feature I was pointed
> to: org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift [1]
>
> With this cool thing you can «generate» several simple occurrences
> from the recurring entry. I use this to manually delete single
> events of a recurring series of events.
>
>> Vielleicht hat die Rostlaube auch heute einfach mein Gehirn weichgekocht
>> ;).
>
> Du wirst von einer Rostlaube gekocht?
>
>   1. http://orgmode.org/org.html#Structure-editing and
>      http://orgmode.org/org.html#Repeated-tasks

-- 
Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de