Schedule more roughly

Schedule more roughly

[Manuel Koell]

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How can I schedule my todo's more roughly? Say, I know I want to do it next
week or in a few months but I don't know the exact date nor time to do it.
I just want a way to plan more foresighted. If the week starts or the month
I could always set a more accurate timestamp then. Any idea? I tried to
remove the day number in a timestamp but this would destroy the timestamp.

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Re: Schedule more roughly

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Manuel Koell <man.koell@gmail.com> writes:

> How can I schedule my todo's more roughly? Say, I know I want to do it next week or in a few months but I don't know the exact date nor time to do it. I just want a way to plan more
> foresighted. If the week starts or the month I could always set a more accurate timestamp then. Any idea? I tried to remove the day number in a timestamp but this would destroy the
> timestamp.

I don't think there's anything built-in that will do this -- I'd
recommend just rescheduling everything to Monday morning next week, and
then do finer-grained rescheduling on the Monday.

You might be amused to try the "random scatter" rescheduling option:
mark the relevant todos, "B" for bulk action, then "S" to shotgun them
over the next N days.

Eirc

Re: Schedule more roughly

[Subhan Michael Tindall]

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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:19 PM Manuel Koell <man.koell@gmail.com> wrote:

> How can I schedule my todo's more roughly? Say, I know I want to do it
> next week or in a few months but I don't know the exact date nor time to do
> it. I just want a way to plan more foresighted. If the week starts or the
> month I could always set a more accurate timestamp then. Any idea? I tried
> to remove the day number in a timestamp but this would destroy the
> timestamp.
>

Take a look at habits.  It has something similar IE you can set a due date
for a habit to be completed for say at least 3 days, but not more than 5
days.
Not exactly what you are looking for but might be adaptable.

http://orgmode.org/manual/Tracking-your-habits.html

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Re: Schedule more roughly

[Manuel Koell]

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I tried the random scatter. This is a really good method for
procrastination! I ended up with the method you said. I schedule those
things now on the beginning of the week or month (or year?) and maybe add a
special tag or todo keyword.

The habits method looks nice! I dont know if I can tweak the visibility of
those tasks in my agenda? I dont want to display those tasks on my agenda
so I would need to filter them out using its own keyword?

2015-07-16 21:18 GMT+02:00 Subhan Michael Tindall <subhan.michael@gmail.com>
:

>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:19 PM Manuel Koell <man.koell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How can I schedule my todo's more roughly? Say, I know I want to do it
>> next week or in a few months but I don't know the exact date nor time to do
>> it. I just want a way to plan more foresighted. If the week starts or the
>> month I could always set a more accurate timestamp then. Any idea? I tried
>> to remove the day number in a timestamp but this would destroy the
>> timestamp.
>>
>
> Take a look at habits.  It has something similar IE you can set a due date
> for a habit to be completed for say at least 3 days, but not more than 5
> days.
> Not exactly what you are looking for but might be adaptable.
>
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Tracking-your-habits.html
>

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