Re: How to "snooze" a repeating item

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Andrew M. Nuxoll <nuxoll@up.edu> wrote:

> I've been using org-mode for four months now and I just love it.  So I 
> think I'm post-newb but still very amateur.
> 
> Anyway, my to-do list has several repeating scheduled items like this 
> contrived example:
> 
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
>       SCHEDULED: <2009-12-08 Tue +1w>
> 
> Or, in English, I meet with Sarah for lunch once a week on Tuesdays.
> 
> Now, let's say that Sarah calls on Monday afternoon and says, "Can we do 
> lunch on Wednesday this week?" and I say "Sure thing."
> 
> Now I have a problem.  I could shift the date to Wednesday like this:
> 
> ***** TODO [#B] Lunch date with Sarah at 12pm
>       SCHEDULED: <2009-12-09 Wed +1w>
> 
> But that will mean that the following week it will *still* be scheduled 
> for Wednesdays (specifically Dec 16 instead of Dec 15).  I miss my 
> regular lunch date with Sarah and catch ire for standing her up.
> 
> How do I handle situations like this? 
> 
> It seems like I either need a time stamp "stack" or I need a temporary 
> flag that "self destructs" after a prescribed time.
> 
> :AMN:
> 

If you are looking for an exclusively org solution, this won't satisfy.
But here's how I would do it:

o go to the agenda, move to the item and press <RET> to visit it.

o copy/paste the subtree (C-c C-x M-w and C-c C-x C-y).

o In one copy, advance the date by a week (to skip tomorrow's reminder).

o In the other, advance the date to Wed and delete the repeater.

HTH,
Nick

PS. To paraphrase Bernt: "Repeat after me: It's just text."
    Every time I start thinking of all kinds of Rube-Goldbergesque
    solutions to simple problems, I whack myself on the head with
    Bernt's reminder and my sanity is restored !-)