Re: org-habit and hourly repeats

[Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 1:03 PM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
> > 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.

Got it :-)

> >> 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)

Thanks for the links and information. It's unfortunate that it's not supported,
but I guess I can live with it, no problem :-)

cheers

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balbi