State Change with diary-float

State Change with diary-float

[Nick Parker]

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All,

I have several events that occur on a monthly basis where I use diary-float
sexp for recurrence.  Something like the following:

Some Meeting
SCHEDULED: <2010-02-04 Thu <%%(diary-float t 4 1)>>

I have noticed that while the sexp will correctly reschedule the item for
me, it only tracks the state of the single entry.  So when I complete the
task and change it's state to DONE, the item no long repeats the schedule
for the future.  I therefore tried to remove the DONE and TODO states for my
repeating events entirely (but left the schedule sexp), however when I view
my agenda, I see an entry for the current day that says:

Sched. 4x Some Meeting

Where "Some Meeting" was in the past.  Is there a way to tell it to not
prompt me for a previously scheduled item, but still use the diary-float
scheduling for items in the future?

Nick Parker
www.developernotes.com

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Re: State Change with diary-float

[Ryan Thompson]

From the Org Manual:

SCHEDULED
     Meaning: you are planning to start working on that task on the
     given date.

In other words, if you just want to mark the date and time at which an
event (like a meeting) will occur, don't use a scheduled timestamp.
Just use an unadorned timestamp (C-c .).


On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Nick Parker <nickp@developernotes.com> wrote:
> All,
> I have several events that occur on a monthly basis where I use diary-float
> sexp for recurrence.  Something like the following:
> Some Meeting
> SCHEDULED: <2010-02-04 Thu <%%(diary-float t 4 1)>>
> I have noticed that while the sexp will correctly reschedule the item for
> me, it only tracks the state of the single entry.  So when I complete the
> task and change it's state to DONE, the item no long repeats the schedule
> for the future.  I therefore tried to remove the DONE and TODO states for my
> repeating events entirely (but left the schedule sexp), however when I view
> my agenda, I see an entry for the current day that says:
> Sched. 4x Some Meeting
>
> Where "Some Meeting" was in the past.  Is there a way to tell it to not
> prompt me for a previously scheduled item, but still use the diary-float
> scheduling for items in the future?
>
> Nick Parker
> www.developernotes.com
>
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Re: State Change with diary-float

[Nick Parker]

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Ryan,

Thanks, that works.

Nick Parker
www.developernotes.com


On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Ryan Thompson <rct@thompsonclan.org> wrote:

> From the Org Manual:
>
> SCHEDULED
>     Meaning: you are planning to start working on that task on the
>     given date.
>
> In other words, if you just want to mark the date and time at which an
> event (like a meeting) will occur, don't use a scheduled timestamp.
> Just use an unadorned timestamp (C-c .).
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Nick Parker <nickp@developernotes.com>
> wrote:
> > All,
> > I have several events that occur on a monthly basis where I use
> diary-float
> > sexp for recurrence.  Something like the following:
> > Some Meeting
> > SCHEDULED: <2010-02-04 Thu <%%(diary-float t 4 1)>>
> > I have noticed that while the sexp will correctly reschedule the item for
> > me, it only tracks the state of the single entry.  So when I complete the
> > task and change it's state to DONE, the item no long repeats the schedule
> > for the future.  I therefore tried to remove the DONE and TODO states for
> my
> > repeating events entirely (but left the schedule sexp), however when I
> view
> > my agenda, I see an entry for the current day that says:
> > Sched. 4x Some Meeting
> >
> > Where "Some Meeting" was in the past.  Is there a way to tell it to not
> > prompt me for a previously scheduled item, but still use the diary-float
> > scheduling for items in the future?
> >
> > Nick Parker
> > www.developernotes.com
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Emacs-orgmode mailing list
> > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
> > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
> >
> >
>

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