From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: How to "snooze" a repeating item Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:09:17 -0500 Message-ID: <9151.1259708957@alphaville.usa.hp.com> References: <4B1599F6.9080302@up.edu> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFbre-0004tv-4u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:10:34 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFbrZ-0004qU-Km for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:10:33 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48033 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NFbrZ-0004qG-EO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:10:29 -0500 Received: from g4t0017.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.20]:44876) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NFbrZ-0005dz-0P for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:10:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message from "Andrew M. Nuxoll" of "Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:34:30 PST." <4B1599F6.9080302@up.edu> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Andrew M. Nuxoll" Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Andrew M. Nuxoll 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 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 !-)