Re: SCHEDULED property behavior not compatible with habits? Confused: How to make this work? #orgmode

[Iannis Zannos <zannos@gmail.com>]

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Hello Marcin
Thanks, for the answer.
(setq org-habit-show-habits-only-for-today nil)
did the trick.
Perhaps this should go into the manual ...

Best,
Iannis Z.


On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>wrote:

> Dnia 2013-09-29, o godz. 02:21:55
> Iannis Zannos <zannos@gmail.com> napisał(a):
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > having tried out the "habits" module after studying the manual on
> > TODOs and scheduling, I cannot make habits work. Reason:
> >
> > When I set the :SCHEDULED: property of a node with a repetition
> > interval such as: <2013-09-27 Fri .+1d>, then changing the TODO
> > status from TODO to DONE will
> >
> >    1. change the status back to TODO (so that the item stays
> > scheduled for a next time)
> >    2. change the date of SCHEDULED to one day after the date of
> > completion of the task
> >
> > This is consistent with the description in the manual at 8.3.2
> > Repeated tasks, and makes sense. However, it interferes with habits,
> > because it changes the date from which the tracking of the habit
> > repetition of the task is being tracked. This means that this node
> > disappears from the habit display in the agenda. Also, it undoes the
> > configured logging mechanism (for example, note+timestamp for DONE
> > state.
> >
> > Am I overseeing something? Surely it must be my mistake. I saw habits
> > at work in the chat of Sacha Chua with Bastien Guerry (
> >
> http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/07/emacs-chat-sacha-chua-with-bastien-guerry/
> )
> > and was quite impressed. But I could not repeat the same results as I
> > saw on Sacha's screen.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Iannis Zannos
>
> Tip 1: try setting org-habit-show-habits-only-for-today to nil (or
> waiting until tomorrow;)).
>
> Tip 2: it seems you mustn't track changes /into/ a TODO state, only
> into DONE.  See note at the bottom here:
> http://mbork.pl/2013-09-23_Automatic_insertion_of_habit_templates_%28en%29
>
> Hth,
>
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
> Adam Mickiewicz University
>
>

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