Re: org-habit and hourly repeats

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> writes:

>> Habits occurring multiple times a day are not properly supported in
>> general. See https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87leplsggg.fsf@localhost/
>
> That's very interesting, because repeated tasks clearly mention hourly repeats:
>
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Repeated-tasks.html
>
> "You can use yearly, monthly, weekly, daily and hourly repeat cookies by
> using the ‘y’, ‘m’, ‘w’, ‘d’ and ‘h’ letters."

Repeated tasks do support hourly repeats. But not habits, as long as
habit-specific logic is concerned.

>> I afraid that things are not that simple.
>
> Do you mind expanding on this? Just generally curious, really.

I tried to list some things in
https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87leplsggg.fsf@localhost/

For example, habit consistency graph assumes that habits are repeated
every day or longer.

Generally, adding hourly habits will require careful checking of
org-habit.el code. In addition, org-agenda cannot display repeated tasks
when their repeat interval is less than a day (it is a minor annoyance
though; should not be a blocker)

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