Re: Closing a task yesterday (or changing the day cutoff to 4am)

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2019-02-02, at 01:29, Leo Gaspard <orgmode@leo.gaspard.io> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I have a few tasks marked as `:STYLE: habit`. And I relatively often
> finish one of those daily habits after midnight.
>
> Yet, I'd like to count it as having been finished the day before, so
> that day switch time happens while I sleep.
>
> I do understand that the best fix to this problem would be to fix my
> sleep schedule and to go to sleep before midnight, but, assuming I can't
> fix this up, do you know if there is a workaround to either:
>  * Make org-mode consider the day to switch at something like 4am
>  * Automatically close a task as though it was the day before, 23:59
>
> Currently my workaround is to close the task then manually fixup the
> `SCHEDULED`, `:LAST_REPEAT:` and `:LOGBOOK:` lines to set them to the
> day before, 23:59, but it's being… quite painful.

You do realize you are not the first one to have that problem, don't
you?  Have you seen `org-agenda-todo-yesterday'?

;-)

Notice, however, that IMHO this is only a dirty hack.  A real solution
to the same problem, as you have noticed, is something that
I implemented a few years ago, and that was a radical change of my
sleeping patterns.  Now I seldom go to bed after 22:30, and usually get
up before 5:30.  This has too many advantages to list them in a short
email. :-) (Of course, I am aware not everyone can pull this off, also
for objective reasons.  My sister is a nurse, for example.)

> Anyway, thank you for org-mode, that allows me to be mildly annoyed at
> things I wouldn't even have considered might become an issue someday
> with programs I used before!

Not sure whether this is a compliment, but I like it:-).

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Marcin Borkowski
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